FREEHOLD -- Wearing a custom-made black leather racing jacket and Yves Saint Laurent sun glasses with his hair slicked back, Paulie Litt, 13, looks like a movie star -- that, or a mini Arthur ...

There are two things to remember as Nickelodeon's Nicktoons Network launches Speed Racer: The Next Generation. 1. Remakes are inevitable and inevitably annoy fans of the original work. 2. Being ...

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 ...

In Speed Racer, Speed (Emile Hirsch) lives to “race” and is haunted by the death of his older brother Rex who was one of the best drivers around. His dad Pops (John Goodman) runs the modest family ...

For those of us who gripe that modern sci-fi and fantasy films consist of actors emoting gamely opposite Players to be Animated Later, the prospect of the Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer was, ...

The comic evolved into a Japanese television show, which was adapted as the 1960s English-dubbed version known to American kids as "Speed Racer." In updating "Speed Racer," the Wachowskis retained all ...

Was Speed Racer ahead of his time? Could a real version of his car be made? According to a University of Cincinnati's School of Design professor and her students, yes. Brigid O’Kane's transportation ...

Imagine someone pouring hot, melted Starburst candies into your corneas, and you just begin to approximate the experience of “Speed Racer,” an ice-cream headache of a movie that just keeps piling on ...

True to its origins as a '60s Japanese animated kiddie favorite, "Speed Racer" blasts into cultural prominence four decades later as an ultra-cartoony actioner defined by its Day-Glo colors, ...