Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

There's a well-known saying about finding connection in the nation's capital city: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. Robot Dreams, a new animated film that is up for this year's Academy ...

Pablo Berger’s Oscar-nominated Spanish film hits theaters this week, and TheWrap is here to fill you in with all the details on how to watch. “Robot Dreams,” adapted from Sara Varon’s 2007 graphic ...

Every new batch of Academy Awards nominations comes with a few surprises. Film fans get up in arms over some of them, but others just prompt a mild “Huh, I haven’t heard of that movie, when did that ...

Do androids dream of electric sheep? A better question: What if their R.E.M. cycles were filled with the same wish-fulfillment scenarios and sweaty-palm nightmares that the rest of us have, as ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

The latest from the Spanish director ('Blancanieves') is a semi-silent cartoon about a dog and his robot companion set in 1980s New York. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Effectively a ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Robot Dreams (now streaming on Hulu) takes the show-me-don’t-tell-me movie M.O. very seriously. The animated film ditches dialogue entirely to tell the story of a dog ...

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