Laika is on a roll with Coraline, ParaNorman and now The Boxtrolls. It’s sometimes a slow roll because of their dedication to painstakingly crafting their films, but it’s worth it. Stop-motion ...

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 ...

If you've seen one Boxtroll, you've seen them all? Not quite. The trailers for Laika's stop-motion/CG hybrid animated film have given us some indication that each Boxtroll has their own look and style ...

I cover the film industry. Unlike the last two above-noted features, The Boxtrolls is not a horror-tinged tale. The title characters are almost immediately established as friendly under-dwellers, and ...

This week we see the release of The Boxtrolls on Blu-ray and DVD. The film is a stop-motion animation based on the novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow. I got a chance to watch the film last night and ...

Here be monsters! Well, OK, not really monsters so much as lovable little creatures that inhabit sewers and live off garbage and their own ingenuity. More specifically still: They're Boxtrolls, and ...

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 ...

“Big Hero 6,” “The Boxtrolls,” “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” and the TV series “Game of Thrones” lead the VES Awards with five nominations apiece. For the first time in its history, Laika will ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Boxtrolls is a comedic fable that unfolds in Cheesebridge, a posh Victorian-era town obsessed with wealth, class and 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 ...