Laika Studios head Travis Knight says of the gay-friendly teaser, "We're just trying to be who we are." By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer “Sometimes there’s a mother,” the narrator intones. “Sometimes ...

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 ...

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 the first teaser ...

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 ...

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, ...

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“The Boxtrolls” are adorable grumbly gremlins who collect garbage, live underground in cardboard clothing and are widely feared by everyone on the surface. They’re the twee Victorian forebears of ...

“The Boxtrolls” is in many ways a beautiful movie, and yet in other ways it’s not very good at all. As an achievement in stop-motion animation, it’s stunning — seamless and detailed, so perfectly done ...

"Boxtrolls" is in many ways a beautiful movie, and yet in other ways it's not very good at all. As an achievement in stop-motion animation, it's stunning - seamless and detailed, so perfectly done ...

Adults are monsters and cute underground beasts are the good guys in the animated The Boxtrolls. Once you get past Kiddie Fare 101, though, the latest stop-motion effort (*** out of four; rated PG; ...

Starring:Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Cert PG, 96 mins The story is convoluted and the title creatures are not ...