One of the great strengths of animation is the ability to make the scary and unbelievable completely credible. The medium is so inherently pliable that if the right effort and right skill is applied, ...

Laika animation studio has been crushing the stop-motion game since their 2009 Academy Award-nominated Coraline. They followed up with the equally impressive Paranorman, and now their latest work of ...

Trolls, it seems, are in the midst of a major image makeover. For years, any time you saw a troll in a fantasy movie — the Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings series come to mind — they were ...

Fall, in my opinion, never officially starts until a stop-motion animated film has been released. Continuing in the tradition of “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Coraline” and “ParaNorman,” “The ...

There's a strange, special kind of magic at work in "The Boxtrolls." The latest gleefully Gothic offering from the stop-motion wizards at Laika Entertainment could have easily been sunk by its ...

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All of the best comedies are subversive. And by that token, the new animated movie The Boxtrolls is a tremendous success — it takes the fabric of society and gleefully shreds it, showing how silly and ...