Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes. Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked ...

Speed Racer was never as artful, in either the visual or literary sense, as a Stan Lee comic book. So we have bedazzling 3D graphics, much better music than we got on TV, and the same flat characters.

Speed Racer is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win The Crucible, a cross-country car-racing rally that claimed the life of his older brother, Rex Racer.

Amid the current push by filmmakers to deny photo-reality in favor of animated impressionism comes Speed Racer, a Wachowski Brothers motion picture derived from a '60s Japanese cartoon ...

Speed Racer is the familiar fable of the little man fighting the big corporation, the inventor vs the exploiter, the young athlete whose talents would be used and abused by the establishment. In ...

How They Made ‘Speed Racer’ Look Like ThatCheck out Vulture’s exclusive slideshow conversation with the effects wizards who made it happen. the take Apr. 3, 2008 Vulture’s Summer Movie ...

They call it "car-fu." To brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski, high-speed chases are more about green screens than mean machines, more bumper car than NASCAR--if bumper cars travelled at 400 mph and ...