He tells the legend of a great samurai warrior named Hanzo and ... The greatness of Kubo and the Two Strings is convincing the audience to understand that immediately and intuit their way through ...

Laika’s fascination with folktales gets more sweeping and exotic with the samurai adventure, “Kubo and the Two Strings,” expanding yet again the boundaries of stop-motion. “Every Laika ...

Beetle (Matthew McConaughey), a samurai with no memory who’s been transformed into a giant insect, joins Kubo and Monkey ... the source of the title’s “two strings,” for instance, would ...

"Kubo and the Two Strings" is the company's latest and ... Not surprising, perhaps, as he's a demi-mortal whose father was a samurai, whose mother is a renegade cosmic witch, whose aunts want ...

This story about “Kubo and the Two Strings” first appeared in The Race ... “The idea is to have elements of a samurai and elements of a bird,” she said, “but we have to make them stay ...

“If you must blink, do it now,” begins the voice-over narration of the animated adventure “Kubo and the Two Strings ... by Matthew McConaughey as a samurai warrior who has been ...

To create its most recent project, Kubo and the Two Strings, the Portland-based firm ... He originally pitched the project to me as this stop-motion samurai epic. I was really intrigued.

Laika's stop-motion samurai fantasy has momentum after ... Laika‘s stop-motion “Kubo and the Two Strings” could be headed for multiple Oscar noms besides animated feature.

The way squares of paper fold themselves into samurai warriors ... and a giant insect might sound like pure whimsy, Kubo And The Two Strings is also surprisingly sharp around the edges ...