For years, before the stop-motion animation wizards of England’s Aardman Animations introduced themselves to a mass audience with the feature film “Chicken Run” in 2000, they had been delighting fans ...

A master of disguise, an evil genius with plenty of tricks up his wings and a relentless pursuer of retribution, Feathers McGraw nests among cinema’s great villains without ever having crooned a ...

Few animated icons can say they have the widespread international appeal of Wallace and Gromit. The practical mascots of the stop-motion legends at Aardman Animation, the Wallace & Gromit series has ...

The misadventure-prone inventor (now voiced by Ben Whitehead) creates a "smart" gnome that develops a mind of its own, leaving his clever pooch to save the day. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic ...

Sometimes I think we put too much pressure on Aardman Animation. They’re the filmmakers who brought us “Wallace and Gromit,” “Chicken Run,” “Arthur Christmas” and “Shaun the Sheep,” so they have a ...

Wallace and Gromit have aged like a fine cheese. Aardman’s stop-motion duo starred in multiple shorts throughout the ‘90s, but in recent years, they’ve taken a backseat while the studio focuses on ...

For as revered a British filmmaking institution as it is, there isn’t actually that much Wallace & Gromit. Three and a half decades have given us four TV shorts, a feature length movie, and a handful ...

Wallace and Gromit’s latest adventure, the delightfully whimsical “Vengeance Most Fowl,” celebrates the joys of doing things the old-fashioned way in a world increasingly focused on automation. The ...

The cheese-loving English inventor Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit have been stars since the beginning. In the 35 years since Nick Park introduced the world to his stop-motion creations and their ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with animators Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham about their new claymation movie, "Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl." Wallace and Gromit are back with their second ...