Before going on to helm Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, director J.A. Bayona delivered an unheralded coming-of-age classic in A Monster Calls. Adapted by writer Patrick Ness from his own 2011 young ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

The monster in the new Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts production of “A Monster Calls” continually bothers young Conor O’Malley. “Stories are important, if they convey the truth,” the ...

Picture Liam Neeson, and it's highly likely you're imagining an angry Irishman talking down a bad guy on the phone or snapping the neck of some unnamed henchman, or someone appearing in posters poking ...

As coming-of-age movies go, “A Monster Calls” is a uniquely gloomy experience. Young Conor O’Malley has a dad who moved 5,000 miles away, a mother dying of cancer and a giant tree creature that visits ...