Imagine That: Kiddie-comedy, best left to viewer's imagination Oct 21, 2009
com - Imagine That Kiddie-comedy, best left to viewer's imagination. Kiddie-comedy, best left to viewer's imagination By Joyce Koor, Channelnewsasia. (Channelnewsasia.com)
At the Movies Sep 23, 2009
Karey Kirkpatrick, writer of films like 'Chicken Run' and 'Road to El Dorado', returns as the director of this wry family comedy starring Eddie Murphy. Successful Financier Evan Danielson is a man who lives for his work. (iAfrica.com)
Wednesday TV: River Cottage Spring Sep 22, 2009
In between some fairly straightforward cooking demonstrations, this week's introductory episode finds him reprising the finest moments from Hugh's Chicken Run, getting sentimental about raising (and then killing) livestock and teaching a committed vegetarian to butcher a whole animal. About Women. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Strong adult themes Sep 11, 2009
Think only of Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run and you'll realise that ''stop-motion animation'' and ''adult'' rarely sit together in the same sentence. The puppets are not at all cute 00004000 and plastic, like most stop-motion characters. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The 20 best animated movies ever Sep 10, 2009
Chicken Run (2000) British stop-motion wizard Nick Park won Oscars for his Wallace and Gromit, but his first feature wasnt about a long-suffering dog and his cheese-loving master it was about a gaggle of chickens trying to stage a great escape from their coop. Full of invention, humor and Mel Gibson-voiced swagger. (MSNBC -- News)
MOVIE REVIEW: 'Imagine That,' Murphy makes solid family comedy Jun 16, 2009
"Imagine That" comes from director Karey Kirkpatrick, who has previously had success with the family films "Over the Hedge" and "Chicken Run" (which he wrote), and writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson ("Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"). The playful tone they achieve as Evan allows himself to enter Olivia's imaginary world always feels real. (North County Times)
Four craft Baftas for Wallander May 19, 2009
Aardman Animations, the maker of Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run, was given this year's special award. Wallander, which took best drama at the TV Baftas, also won in the photography and lighting section as well as the sound for a fiction/entertainment programme category. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Aardman Produces Arthur Christmas, ... Apr 29, 2009
will be rendered in stop-motion, the same technique used in previous Aardman films such as Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit ... Aardman co-founder Peter Lord (Chicken Run) along with Jeff Newitt (Trainspotter) is directing Pirates. (Suite101.com)
