That eight-minute movie, “ Bao,” about a dumpling that comes to life, giving an aging Chinese woman relief from empty nest syndrome, won Shi an Oscar - and put her on course to break an even bigger glass ceiling at Pixar. She stayed on as a staff artist, contributing to films like “Inside Out” and “Incredibles 2.” In 2018, she became the first woman to direct a Pixar short. Shi, who likens herself to a cat oscillating between “lazy and grrr,” arrived at Pixar as a storyboarding intern in 2011, when she was 22. “Get some ladies!” Domee Shi told me recently. But the Disney-owned animation studio has been trying to evolve, largely because many of its own artists have demanded it. The film’s narrative simplicity can be charming or frustrating, depending on your feelings about awkward dialogue and overreacting actors.Pixar has a well-deserved reputation for dudes - movies focused on dudes (20 out of 24 feature films), movies directed by dudes (23 of 24), movies written by dudes (50 of 59 screenwriters). Even when word gets out that the Martian invasion announcement was just part of a radio show, not everyone listens as intently as they did to the original radio program and gossip. Lambert, who wrote the screenplay with Michael Dowling, aims for a modest, old-fashioned yarn about a time when people believed in the news media. With its warm filters and costumes, the movie emulates a period film, but its sharp digital cinematography is at odds with its softer, vintage aesthetic. Through its many cheerful characters, “Brave New Jersey” emanates an upbeat attitude of a James Stewart kind. Out of the ensuing chaos, the town’s bashful mayor (Tony Hale, from “Veep”) is forced to assert himself, and a pastor’s faith is challenged, as is the relationship between a schoolteacher and her new fiancé. In Jody Lambert’s lighthearted comedy “Brave New Jersey” panic is positive, pushing people to say or do things they may have never done under ordinary circumstances.

Fear that it was real quickly set off a panic. Those unaware that the broadcast was a work of fiction fell for Wells’s story of an alien invasion. Wells’s novel “The War of the Worlds” in an infamous radio production on Oct.

That rural town was light-years away from the Manhattan home of the CBS studio, where Orson Welles was retelling H.

Fake news travels fast, even in the fictitious New Jersey town of Lullaby in the 1930s.

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