The Pensacola man charged with strangling his elderly mother avoided prison time after pleading no contest Wednesday to abuse rather than attempted murder. The Office of the State Attorney amended ...

Gorgeous and mesmerizing, “Azur & Asmar” eschews computer-generated imagery to render a flat, storybook-style animation that never stops delighting with its ornamental detail, range of color and ...

A box-shaped musical instrument invented in ninteenth-century Berlin has gained popularity worldwide due to its portability and unique combination of melody keys and bass buttons. This versatility has ...

As tQ speaks to Beirut-based multi-instrumentalist, video artist and puppeteer Yara Asmar, a universe of soundscapes opens around her. Showing us around her Beirut apartment via Zoom, where she’s set ...

Animated fairy tale. Featuring the voices of Steven Kynman, Nigel Lambert and Suzanna Nour. Directed by Michel Ocelot. (PG. 99 minutes. At the Opera Plaza Cinema in San Francisco.) Parents who don't ...

Viewers used to the increasing fluidity and visual depth of Hollywood CGI may have trouble getting used to the films of French animator Michel Ocelot, whose features (Kirikou And The Sorceress, ...

Is it too early to announce the most beautiful film of 2009? Two days into the new year, it’s hard to imagine a more transporting cinematic experience coming our way than “Azur & Asmar,” an animated ...