It was way back in 2006 (16 years ago!) that Pixar premiered the first Cars movie, a critically and popularly acclaimed animated feature the down-home wisdom of which soon made it a movie classic.

It was way back in 2006 (16 years ago!) that Pixar premiered the first Cars movie, a critically and popularly acclaimed animated feature the down-home wisdom of which soon made it a movie classic.

The Petersen Automotive Museum and Pixar Animation Studios have one thing in common: “Cars,” and lots of them. Pixar’s Lightning McQueen, Sally Carrera, Mack and, of course, the tow truck ...

Usually by the time a movie franchise hits its third installment, the whole enterprise has run out of gas creatively. Too often, the spark and originality that made the first picture a hit have ...