Much money, reportedly in the neighborhood of $200 million, was spent on “Jack the Giant Slayer,” a good chunk of it, one presumes, on visual effects to render a beanstalk unlike any beanstalk ...

The 20-year-old British actress plays Princess Isabelle in Jack the Giant Slayer, opening on Friday in theaters, and the film stands to do big things for her fledgling career. “I grew up in the ...

His new film, Jack the Giant Slayer, comes out on March 1 and is a ... and StanleyTucci fighting ugly giants in front of green screens. It seems Hollywood has become obsessed with modernizing ...

Director Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer alters the thrust, but with a knowing sense of humor: The movie opens and closes with the suggestion that tales change in the telling, often ...

But that’s little more than a fondly remembered children’s story for orphaned farmhand Jack (Nicholas Hoult), who wanders into town to sell a horse and comes away with a bag of mysterious beans.

Twisting a familiar bedtime story like a beanstalk, Jack the Giant Slayer possesses the same sedating qualities. That might be a compliment if Bryan Singer's version were a picture book but it's a ...

Bryan Singer’s “Jack the Giant Slayer” is a gentle giant, a short and sweet climb that’s fun all the way up the bean stalk. For those longing for more epic adventure but were disappointed ...

The new trailer for Bryan Singer’s new fantasy film, “Jack the Giant Slayer,” doesn’t play coy with the goods. The last trailer showed only bits of the giants -- an eyeball here ...

Soon, the beans take root with a giant stalk carrying away the princess and Jack's house. He soon sets off on an adventure with the king's guards to rescue the princess, only to find that a ...

Nothing I say or do is going to save Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer, but it really is a rather good movie. It’s not a great movie, but it is a good, entertaining one. More than that ...