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, ...

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 ...

The Boxtrolls is the latest movie from stop motion animation studio Laika, previously responsible for the award-winning Coraline and ParaNorman. Adapted from the novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow, ...

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 ...

Giving animation giants Pixar and Disney another run for their box office money, the Oregon-based LAIKA animation studio has a new contender in “The Boxtrolls.” Two previous LAIKA films, 2012’s ...

At this year's Comic-Con, the makers of the new stop-motion animated movie, The Boxtrolls, were unusually honest about the stress of making their film. Normally, at a panel in front of 6,000 people, ...

Though it has some story issues, Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi's The Boxtrolls is a technical marvel, a traditional stop-motion animation film that uses modern technology to augment the original ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Focus Features has released a new full-length ...

“The Boxtrolls” is the latest production from Laika, the company that made the films “Coraline” and “ParaNorman,” which were both nominated for the Academy Award for best animated feature. Again using ...

LAIKA‘s latest stop-motion project “The Boxtrolls” hits theaters this weekend and Indiewire’s managing editor Nigel Smith spoke with the directors to discuss “The Making Of.” Graham Annable and ...

While the bulk of modern cinematic animation lives inside computers, with Pixar-style CG characters dominating the box-office, Laika has carved out its own creative space, with advanced stop-motion ...

In the subterranean world of “The Boxtrolls,” a gaggle of kid-sized goblins create their own society. They stock their lair full of sundry items stolen during the night from the streets of ...