Brendan and the Secret of Kells France-Belgium-Ireland Production: A Les Armateurs, France 2 Cinema (France)/Vivi Film (Belgium)/Cartoon Saloon (Ireland) production, with the support of Le Fonds ...

Aidan enlists Brendan’s help to finish the book, putting Brendan squarely at odds with his uncle. The Secret of Kells posits several mature themes, including a healthy helping of Celtic ...

“The Secret of Kells,” co-directed by Nora Twomey, is a fable-like tale of how that book might have come to be completed, involving the stern Abbot Cellach (voiced by Brendan Gleeson), the ...

REVIEW The Secret of Kells Who: Directed by Tomm Moore, with voices of Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson. Not rated. Running time: 75 minutes. When: Opens Friday, May 14. Where: Cedar Lee Theatre ...

As Brendan makes his way through the world ... If the storytelling of "The Secret of Kells" doesn't compare to the tales told by, say, Pixar or Miyazaki-san, the sense that you're watching ...

As advances in technology allow for ever more realism in animated features, the artists behind “The Secret of ... old novice Brendan lives within the walled monastery of Kells under the stern ...

The Secret of Kells was originally released in 2009 and starred Irish actor Brendan Gleeson as the lead voice actor. The story follows a young boy in a remote medieval outpost under siege from ...

Refreshingly different precisely because its look is so profoundly retro, "Brendan and the Secret of Kells" harks back not just to older animation styles but to pre-medieval illuminated manuscript ...

The Secret of Kells keeps the religious content fairly simple and inoffensive. And “simple” really defines the entire narrative arc, which barely bothers with making Brendan a character at all. The ...

It must be admitted that The Secret of Kells somewhat short-changes Brendan’s Christian world in relation to Ireland’s lingering paganism. The Faerie world is matter-of-factly depicted as ...

The Secret of Kells, you probably know, un-monkishly copies The Book of ... gets distinctly shrunken by turning the story into a head-butting battle between young Brendan (who’s all about the book) ...