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 ...

When Emile Hirsch watched reruns of the 1960s cartoon “Speed Racer” on MTV in the 1990s, he fell in love. So it’s only fitting that he should star as the hero of the title in the live-action, ...

Speed Racer is one of the earliest animated series to be brought over from Japan to the US. It hit US airwaves in the late 60's and went on to become engraved in American pop culture. The series has a ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Think back to your childhood. Remember Pixy Stix? I'm not talking about the regular kind, but the ones where the sugary powdered ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anime is fairly ubiquitous in North America these days; Netflix is even commissioning original animation from Japan and Korea, and even though there still tends to be a bit of a stigma surrounding ...

The movie Speed Racer opens Thursday. It's based on the Japanese animated series that was a hit with American kids in the late 1960s. The movie is directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, who directed ...