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A Monster Calls is a beautiful, heartbreaking and honest look at processing grief and loss through the eyes of a child Title: A Monster Calls Director: J.A Bayona Summary: A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mum's terminal illness. There are movies like Collateral Beauty and anything based on a novel[...]

Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 A Monster Calls is not an easy movie to watch It's a brutally honest portrayal of a boy who is enduring the slow loss of his mother from terminal cancer and his dealing with the anguish via a monster summoned from his imagination I don't know of many films where[...]

In this new featurette for the movie A Monster Calls, director J A Bayona and actor Liam Neeson talk about what it took to film The Monster There are forty-five minutes of visual effects according to Bayona and mixing the digital world with the real one is quite a challenge. I know the film is based[...]

The upcoming film, A Monster Calls, has a very interesting backstory that is shared in the video below It's based on an idea for a book by Siobhan Dowd who passed before she could write it Then it was picked up by Patrick Ness who wrote the novel and then the screenplay for the film. The[...]

Focus Features seems to think Patrick Ness' dark fairy tale fable A Monster Calls could make a hell of a movie, and having read the book, I really can't agree hard enough It's good news, then, that Deadline reports the studio has made a huge deal to release the film, and has set Juan Antonio[...]