‘Minions & Monsters’ Review: The Yellow Terrors Hit a Creative High

‘Minions & Monsters’ Review: The Yellow Terrors Hit a Creative High

From “Sunset Boulevard” to “The Artist,” “Singin’ in the Rain” to “Babylon,” Hollywood’s transition to sound cinema has long been a fertile period for later film artists to recreate with all the more evolved tools at their disposal — and so it proves, most happily and improbably, for the Minions. The frenetic antics of Illumination‘s … Read more

‘Minions & Monsters’ Director Pierre Coffin on Returning to the Franchise

‘Minions & Monsters’ Director Pierre Coffin on Returning to the Franchise

Pierre Coffin thought he was done with the Minions. After nearly two decades inside the “Despicable Me” universe — the highest-grossing animated franchise of all time, with more than $5.5 billion worldwide across six films — the French animator had earned the right to feel worn out. Coffin co-directed four of those movies and voices … Read more