Indie Roundup: ‘A Cat in Paris’

 The animation category for the Academy Awards is one of the few to deliver real surprises. A couple of years ago, the nominating committees threw just about everyone for a loop by naming a little-known movie called "The Secret of Kells" alongside the likes of "Up" and "Coraline." And that was a great call by the academy; not only did it rightfully recognize the movie -- a dazzling, stylized tale about medieval Ireland -- as being worthy of going toe-to-toe with the big boys, it also lifted the movie out of film fest obscurity. This year, the academy gave the same treatment to a pair of animated movies: "Chico y Rita," a grownup take on jazz and Cuba, which was released earlier this year, and "A Cat in Paris," which opens this week.                                                Read More »