Rooms come alive. A towering yew tree walks and talks. A nightmare manifests as a menacing, muttering crowd. A powerhouse ensemble conjures these eerie moments in “A Monster Calls,” the ...

In designing the tree creature, Bayona believed simpler was better. “The more sophisticated the Monster was, the less space it leaves the audience for imagination,” says the filmmaker, whose ...

Constructing the ominous tree creature that helps 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) cope while his mother (Felicity Jones) battles an illness in A Monster Calls was an exercise in patience.

A Monster Calls dials up a nostalgic and superb coming-of-age journey that'll have audiences grabbing all the hankies. An embattled sort, young Conor (MacDougall) can't catch a break in any part ...

The British drama "A Monster Calls" has all the ingredients to produce yet another sob-fest, ... He starts getting nightly visits from a yew tree that’s visible from his bedroom window.

Film Review: ‘A Monster Calls’ Though visually stunning, J.A. Bayona's gothic fable about an angry boy and the massive tree monster who comes to his rescue is all bark and no bite.

On the yew tree. Which now stood firmly in the middle of his backyard. And here was the monster. As Conor watched, the uppermost branches of the tree gathered themselves into a great and terrible face ...

Until one night, drawing at his desk at 12:07 on the dot, the massive yew tree in the churchyard visible from his bedroom window wrenches to life. That tree is now a monster spewing fire and ash ...

Constructing the ominous tree creature that helps 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) cope while his mother (Felicity Jones) battles an illness in A Monster Calls was an exercise in patience ...

The British drama “A Monster Calls” has all the ingredients to produce yet another sob-fest, revolving as it does around a sensitive, bullied boy who must come to terms with his mother&… ...