After a recent screening of “The Boxtrolls,” a child approached animator Travis Knight to say he loved the movie because “it was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.” For Knight, president and CEO of ...

“Big Hero 6,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “The Lego Movie,” “Cheatin',” “Song of the Sea,” “The Book of Life,” “The Boxtrolls” and “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” have been nominated for the top ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Giving two 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 ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Travis Knight on the set of The Boxtrolls. Right—people often think animation is a single genre, but you don't see it that way. I can kind of excuse people for thinking that. As artists, I think we've ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

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 ...

"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 ...

After a recent screening of “The Boxtrolls,” a child approached animator Travis Knight to say he loved the movie because “it was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.” For Knight, president and CEO of ...