Skillfully detailing a wide variety of characters, Jack offers a multilayered narrative ... and innovative in its execution. Not just a giant, but a race of giants await them.

JACK THE GIANT SLAYER is a thrilling fantasy adventure. It’s directed well and firmly holds the viewer’s attention throughout its running time. Even better, the main characters promote self-sacrifice, ...

Extras: commentary with Hoffman and behind-the-scenes featurettes. “Jack the Giant Slayer” (PG-13, 117 minutes, Warner): Much like the imaginary floating land called Gantua, situated halfway ...

Mandalay’s Cathy Shulman will also produce. Hoult was recently seen in the zombie romance Warm Bodies and Warner Bros’ Jack The Giant Slayer and will be in the upcoming Mad Max Fury Road ...

Film review: ‘That was quite fun but who’s it for?’ is what I wondered after seeing latest fairy tale reboot Jack The Giant Slayer. It commences in stern Lord of The Rings modus with a dark ...

Jack The Giant Slayer is a big, effects-driven movie that ... only one giant atop the beanstalk there are hundreds of the ugly beasts, led by an unrecognizable (I’m glad to say) Bill Nighy.

For its first 90 minutes, Jack the Giant Slayer is diverting. The design of the giants and the beanstalks keep your eyes busy, even when the story sets your mind to wandering.

And so, arriving on the heels of the not-very-good Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, the not-much-better Jack the Giant Slayer looms over a multiplex near you. A large company of screenwriters and ...

Fairy tales mustn’t be too realistic. For, as the psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim argued in The Uses of Enchantment, it is precisely the unrealistic nature of fairy tales that makes it obvious ...

“Cirque du so lame,” indeed. Not so much “fee-fye-foe-fum” as “ho-hum,” this new “Jack the Giant Slayer” from Bryan Singer is a pleasant enough retelling of the Cornish fairy tal ...

Perhaps "Jack and the Beanstalk" sounded a bit tame, and "Jack the Giant Killer" a bit bloodthirsty. This CGI-led adventure reprises elements of both fairytales and, a few wobbles aside ...