BROOKLYN, NY - In his new column "Screen Time," film critic Jesse Hassenger looks at some of the best and most interesting family-friendly titles streaming (for free!) on Tubi. First up: Laika’s "The ...
A villainous troll catcher sets out to eradicate the underclass and join the cheese-eating elite in the latest from the animation house behind 'Coraline' and 'ParaNorman' By David Rooney Chief Film ...
A boy raised by little underground monsters is probably going to need a makeover at some point. In the stop-motion-animated film The Boxtrolls (in theaters Sept. 26), an adaptation of Alan Snow's ...
Based on Alan Snow’s popular 2005 novel “Here Be Monsters,” this deeply eccentric animated feature deals with the adventures of Eggs, a human orphan who has been raised in the cavernous home of a ...
Many intriguing unlovelies are found in “The Boxtrolls,” a new 3-D animated fable that lifts liberally from the sketches and dark sensibility of Alan Snow’s creepy-good children’s novel “Here Be ...
Even by the standards of kids’ movies about genocide and the frequent uselessness of fathers, “The Boxtrolls” isn't very much fun at all. A surprisingly charmless and aimless movie from Laika Studios, ...
Laika Studios burst upon the scene (out of the ashes of the old Will Vinton Studios) in 2009 with the brilliant Coraline and a mandate to keep stop-motion animation alive. The studio’s 2012 follow-up, ...