Given its setting, it’s somewhat of a disappointment that “Ferdinand” can’t be as Spanish as “Coco” is Mexican; the movie nails the Iberian nation’s topography and the faces of its ...

One thing Ferdinand the movie doesn’t do is pander: death is an ever-present part of the life the bulls lead and the movie doesn’t shy away from that cold hard fact. The film opens with grief ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The story of a "Ferdinand" the peaceful bull has been a favorite children's book for 80 years. It's now a feature length movie, with WWE star John Cena voicing the title role ...

The movie widens Ferdinand’s world, allowing him to bring others along with him on his quest to be who he wants to be, and to let others do the same. That theme and the anti-bullfighting message ...

“Ferdinand,” but perhaps the filmmakers behind the raucous “Ice Age” movies aren’t exactly the right team to adapt this elegant story to the screen. The peaceful spirit of Ferdinand the ...

And that bull has been on quite a journey to get here. John Cena, the actor who voices Ferdinand in the new movie, recently read the original story to hundreds of DC public school kids at the ...

You won’t be surprised to learn that “Ferdinand,” the new animated feature based on the beloved 1936 children’s book, manages to find a way to put the titular bull into a literal china shop.

Yet, even if it didn’t, the movie suggests that not only would Ferdinand be happy if he weren’t bullfighting but also the movie suggests that everyone else would be happy if there weren’t ...

Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires fattening up to become a film. Sometimes Hollywood’s crassness kills the charm.