The books in Peter Brown’s “Wild Robot” trilogy were the first to wallop my son with the mix of tragedy and joy that define great art and also real life. “It made me sad that Roz had to leave ...

There are two very different births in "The Wild Robot," the latest animated film from Universal Pictures. One is the birth of Rozzum 7134, a robot known as Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), who first boots up on ...

There’s a subset of family movies that’s obsessed with humanoid technology — robots, personal helpers and the like — and that is determined to work out the conflicted feelings we human beings have ...

Douglas Adams, whose vividly sentient android, Marvin, remained in a state of permanent, severe depression despite his planet-sized brain, famously summed up the three stages of sophistication of ...

Toys for Superman recently revealed that the Man of Steel battles an Abominable Snowman-like creature in the Fortress of Solitude. Not every toy is representative of what we'll see on screen, of ...