For a decade, maybe more, the animated look and aesthetic established by "Toy Story" in 1995 gave the Pixar movies their eye-popping surface wonder. What we quickly came to think of as the Pixar house ...

There was once a very poor man named Masaniello, who had twelve daughters whom he could barely afford to take care of. One day, the peasant came to the mouth of a cave while working the land, and was ...