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 ...

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 ...

Since I became a parent, I’ve found that films that place kids in peril, or linger on their suffering, have a disproportionate effect on me. If the story is honest and artful, I’m a wreck and can ...

The University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre will present the Maine premiere of A Monster Calls at Russell Hall on the USM Gorham campus October 24th-November 2nd. Conor has been having ...