Two very different animated features come to local theaters, along with wild fantasy, gung-ho action and wartime comedy-drama.
In Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (pictured), Tina Fey plays a reporter dealing with the insanity of covering wartime Afghanistan, with the absurdist comedy elements working better than the soul-searching drama. The Japanese animated feature The Boy and the Beast, about a human runaway who journeys to a land populated by beasts, finds great visual energy to compensate for a familiar kid/mentor dynamic. And Stephen Chow's wild fantasy...