PLOT In the late 1800s, a French orphan girl travels to Paris in the hopes of dancing in the ballet. BOTTOM LINE An animated French Canadian import with little charm or wit. In the animated film “Leap ...

You would think in a sweet, inspirational story about a young girl realizing her dream to become a ballerina in 19th-century Paris you’d be able to escape the gross-out scatological humor that ...

“Leap!” follows a wannabe 11-year-old dancer who tries to make her dream come true in 1880s Paris. The twinkletoed underdog deftly gets the job done. The movie — not so much. The story is inherently ...

Sara Yassky opens She Was a Computer with the Lana Del Rey spin (Loren R. Robertson Productions). To learn about the Internet, we tend to turn to ... the Internet. Blogs comment on blogs commenting on ...

Two of the biggest TV companies in Europe, Germany’s ZDF and France Televisions, both public broadcasters, have boarded CGI animated comedy drama “20 Dance Street,” which has been greenlit for ...

“Leap!” is the kind of movie where if you see someone holding a stack of dishes, they will certainly break in the name of a lazy comedic moment. There seem to be two jobs classifications among the ...

The good news about Yuri Possokhov's "Firebird" at San Francisco Ballet is that the production really moves, as one pleasantly surprised luminary of the local dance scene enthused while dashing from ...

A slower pace might have given more individual dancers a chance to shine, but that's all balanced by a rapid-fire series of memorable visual moments. Those who think of ballet, and especially of ...

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, where "the drugs began to take hold" in the Johnny Depp adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." In the manic, ...

An stunning dance and experimental theater show pulled pieces of the Internet into the physical world with wild and beautiful results. To learn about the Internet, we tend to turn to ... the Internet.