A Monster Calls

Go Behind the Story With This ‘A Monster Calls’ Featurette
Go Behind the Story With This ‘A Monster Calls’ Featurette
Go Behind the Story With This ‘A Monster Calls’ Featurette
While not quite an award season darling, one of the more anticipated movies of the next two months is Juan Antonio Bayona’s adaptation of A Monster Calls, a movie about a young boy who dives into a fantasy world to deal with the pain of losing his mother. Sitting as a cross between The Iron Giant and Calvin and Hobbes, A Monster Calls is a film about childhood loss; those who saw the film on the festival circuit have already described it as an earnest tearjerker, including our own Erin Whitney at the Toronto International Film Festival.
2016 Toronto International Film Festival Preview
2016 Toronto International Film Festival Preview
2016 Toronto International Film Festival Preview
Adios summer, the fall festival season has begun! On the heels of the Venice and Telluride film festivals, the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival kicks off this week with a handful of films we can’t wait to see. The fall festivals are a time when we can finally put the ugly remnants of summer movie season behind us (especially this year), and get a look at the movies that may redeem the year in cinema.
‘A Monster Calls’ Might Be an Oscar Contender
‘A Monster Calls’ Might Be an Oscar Contender
‘A Monster Calls’ Might Be an Oscar Contender
With the overwhelmingly positive reception its fantastical trailers have gotten, and the fact that J.A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls is set to premiere next week at the Toronto International Film Festival, Focus Features has moved the film’s release date from October to December, possibly to give it a better chance at competing during awards season.
‘A Monster Calls’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Has Monster Skills
‘A Monster Calls’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Has Monster Skills
‘A Monster Calls’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Has Monster Skills
In the last couple years Liam Neeson has positioned himself as the scourge of kidnappers, murderers, terrorists, and wolves everywhere. But he still has room in his heart for children, as shown by the latest trailer for A Monster Calls, in which Neeson voices a big friendly giant (hm, where have I seen this concept recently?) who befriends a young boy struggling with his mother’s illness. The mother is played by Felicity Jones, and Sigourney Weaver (who’s actually top-billed in the trailer) stars as the boy’s grandmother.
‘A Monster Calls’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Is a Friendly Monster
‘A Monster Calls’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Is a Friendly Monster
‘A Monster Calls’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Is a Friendly Monster
We’re getting two fantasy films about little kids and their giant friendly monster pals this year: Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG, starring Mark Rylance as the titular giant, and Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls, starring Liam Neeson as the eponymous monster (who is also a very old tree). A new trailer has arrived for the latter, promising a beautiful, melancholy adventure that could very well give Spielberg’s film a run for its money — and that’s no easy feat.
‘A Monster Calls’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Is a Friendly Tree
‘A Monster Calls’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Is a Friendly Tree
‘A Monster Calls’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Is a Friendly Tree
Liam Neeson is exchanging his leather jacket and kidnap rescue mission for his next film, in which he plays a gravelly-voiced CG tree monster. You don’t get to see too much of him in the first trailer for A Monster Calls, but you can hear his Tom Waits impression as he narrates with the story of an invisible monster who doesn’t want to be invisible and alone anymore. It’s like The Iron Giant, but with a tree creature.