The Wachowskis have amazed again and shown us a world we'll only ever see in their imagination. Speed Racer is yet another visual revolution, but this time it's for kids, too. It's everything you'd ...

Here he comes, here comes “Speed Racer,” back on the smallscreen. Lionsgate will announce today plans for its first animated series, a new version of the 1960s toon “Speed Racer.” Nickelodeon’s ...

At one dramatic moment in "Speed Racer," a chimpanzee throws his own feces in someone's face. It's an apt metaphor for the whole film. Perhaps the stupidest movie ever made for a budget of $100 ...

The car wasn't just a vehicle, it was a fully-fledged character in his world I was around seven, when I first watched Speed Racer. You don’t have to fathom much: It focuses on a boy named Speed. He’s ...

If I were a 9-year-old no doubt that rating would be a gazillion stars instead of two and a half, but I’m a 45-year-old critic who thinks “Speed Racer” is one of the most interesting looking films ...

This spring, it's time to rev up. Speed Racer is not only getting a feature film this May, but now also its own animated series, Speed Racer: The Next Generation, on Nicktoons.The new series will ...

For Emile Hirsch, playing the high-octane hero in “Speed Racer” was something of a stretch. “I’ve only ever gotten one ticket in my life and that was for driving my friends’ mom’s car without front ...

The circumstances cause the gifted Emile Hirsch to leap into another kind of wild — the digital kind — to save the day. Hirsch damn near does the impossible, turning the cartoon Speed Racer into ...

There has been a rise in old-school cartoons getting adapted into modern comic books. Properties like Transformers (written by Daniel Warren Johnson, with art by Jorge Corona), Thundercats (Declan ...