Early in "Kubo and the Two Strings," our hero meekly strides into an ancient Japanese village marketplace the way Toshiro Mifune might have entered a Kurosawa film, but with greater bustle. Kubo, a ...

Kubo and the Two Strings creator Shannon Tindle took to Twitter over the weekend to recount the nightmare experience of being replaced as director on Kubo and the Two Strings. According to Tindle, who ...

Beware the Hall of Bones. With “Kubo and the Two Strings” just a few weeks away, mere trailers are apparently no longer sufficient to build hype for Travis Knight’s animated adventure starring ...

Kubo is no traditional warrior. The young boy with bangs draped over his patched eye pulls out his shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese lute). Soon, his strumming sends the paper sitting in front of ...

Kubo’s quest stretches far and wide through the mystical realm of the Vastlands. With his protectors Monkey and Beetle by his side, Kubo unlocks more of his powers at every challenge, racing toward an ...

A pair of LAIKA stop-motion films are coming to 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time. Standard and Steelbook editions of The Boxtrolls and Kubo and the Two Strings make their 4K debuts on a February ...

The Walt Disney Company owned three of the four nominations in the BAFTA’s best animated feature category this year, but the underdog—Laika’s Kubo and the Two Strings—came out victorious in the end.

Set in ancient Japan, the fantasy film Kubo and the Two Strings (directed by Travis Knight, who was the lead animator for Coraline) doesn’t just open on a note of despair, it lingers there. The early ...

First things first, I absolutely adore animation. In my eyes, it’s the most creative and culturally diverse medium in the film industry today, and if 2016 has proven anything to us, it’s that animated ...