Usually, the Fourth of July is expected to go up in smoke. But not like this. “It’s a tinderbox” said Ken Cannon, who had been observing the Coco Palms fire for the past two hours from the roadside.

With every Pixar movie, the anticipation is high. The standards that the Disney-owned animated company has set for both animation and storytelling-are on the upper stratosphere. Whether it be "Toy ...