Tim Burton’s remake of the Walt Disney cartoon classic, Dumbo, is coming down the track towards theaters. And although early reviews and box office predictions have been mixed, we’ll say this about ...

While I didn’t pay any money for my tickets to Dumbo, I did buy a Coke slurpee from the AMC Boston Common concessions counter—which is, as a brief aside, the least urgent place I have ever ...

Director Tim Burton’s live-action repurposing of the animated 1941 feature “Dumbo” offers more of many things: more mayhem, more angst, twice the unethical-treatment-of-animals pathos and five times ...

In Disney’s latest film, the audience is taken back in time to the days of circuses and magic acts. The 1941 animated film “Dumbo” is brought to life with the live-action remake starring a cute, ...

There’s a peculiarly 19th-century sensibility at work in Dumbo, both the 1941 Walt Disney animated version and Tim Burton’s new live-action retelling. It’s as if, once the workhouses were abolished, ...

The animators wanted to join the Screen Cartoonists Guild, a move Walt Disney resisted. Workers staged a walkout, and on July 9, 1941, Variety reported, “There was the added charge that subversive and ...