Parents need to know that “Kubo and the Two Strings” is an adventure from LAIKA Animation, the studio behind “Coraline,” “ParaNorman,” “The Boxtrolls,&#822… ...

“If you must blink, do it now,” begins the voice-over narration of the animated adventure “Kubo and the Two Strings.” “Pay careful attention to everything you see, no matter how unusual ...

“A lead character like Kubo has 22,000 faces,” said McLean. “But we bisect the faces into two different phases, eyebrow and mouth, so the animator can independently replace one or the other.

A visual treat from beginning to end, ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ is the best feature yet to come out of celebrated stop-motion studio Laika.

In the production notes for “Kubo and the Two Strings,” an absolutely gorgeous work of stop-motion animation from Oregon-based Laika, the company’s CEO, Travis Knight, writes of t… ...

But Kubo and the Two Strings’ architect, Travis Knight, doesn’t use the project to show off how many Japanese movies he’s seen, or to catalogue his fondness for A New Hope.

Kubo and the Two Strings is lovely to behold, if viewers manage to keep their eyes open.It's an animated doozy and drowser at once, an uncomfortable mix of Miyazaki-style imagination and generic ...

Kubo and the Two Strings does, and in spades. Filmgoers who’ve suffered through a summer of superheroes, supervillains and sequels/snarky reboots, we now have something that genuinely casts a ...

Early in “Kubo and the Two Strings,” our hero meekly strides into an ancient Japanese village marketplace the way Toshiro Mifune might have entered a Kurosawa film, but with greater bustle.

Kubo and the Two Strings: Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey movie video ...

Phil Villarreal's novel, Zeta Male, is available at Amazon. TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - A Japanese fable with more folds revealing inner beauty than an intricate origami creation, "Kubo and the Two ...

Phil Villarreal's novel, Zeta Male, is available at Amazon. TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - A Japanese fable with more folds revealing inner beauty than an intricate origami creation, "Kubo and the Two ...