A co-director of one of this summer’s animation blockbusters, Toronto’s Domee Shi has included the city in her films “Bao” ...

Pixar's 'Elio' has so much promise to be a fun intergalactic kids' movie. But it follows the same formula of past Pixar ...

Friendship is a frequent Pixar theme. In "Elio," Zoe Saldaña and co-star Yonas Kibreab also connected with the movie's exploration of loneliness.

Toronto native Domee Shi co-directs “Elio,” a Pixar animated sci-fi film about an 11-year-old orphan who yearns to be snatched by extraterrestrials to escape his loneliness — and gets his wish.

An orphaned boy is whisked away on a visually wondrous cosmic adventure, but he returns home with mostly reassuring lessons.

The new Pixar animated film “Elio” takes up a question famously posed by astrophysicist Carl Sagan: “are we alone?” It’s in ...

Elio,’ Pixar’s new movie about a boy who wants to be abducted by aliens, has its roots in a true story about one of its directors.

That old Pixar magic, once one of the most bankable commodities in Hollywood, is in short supply in "Elio," a run-of-the-mill ...

Pixar trades soul-searching for star-seeking in its most whimsical — and least self-serious — original cartoon in over a ...

"Elio," the latest from Pixar, should satisfy fans of the studio's storytelling and animation when it releases this week.

If a movie is a bowl of breakfast cereal, “Elio” is Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, and the audience is Calvin. The title hero ...

The story of a lonely boy who wants to connect with alien life explores ideas both personal and universal in a way that will reach all ages.