Without a doubt, the exquisite ballroom dance sequence from The Boxtrolls (a romantic interlude combined with a frantic chase and culminating with public humiliation) was the most difficult to pull ...

Getting the instantly recognizable, oh-so-sophisticated voice of Sir Ben Kingsley to speak for the part of a venomous villain in an animated feature is certainly no stretch of an idea. But getting the ...

Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray widescreen, DVD widescreen and Digital HD download, 2014, PG for action, peril and mild rude humor Best extra: “Voicing the Boxtrolls” lands the top spot for Ben Kingsley’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

Part three of a five-part series in which Ed Hooks, author of Acting for Animators, does an acting and performance analysis of this year’s five Academy Award-nominated animated features. Read his ...

Credit is given, right at the beginning of “The Boxtrolls,” that the quaintly old-fashioned, stop-motion animated film is “based on the popular children’s book ‘Here Be Monsters’ by Alan Snow.” Well, ...