The Green Man is such an important figure in mythology that you will find hundreds of designs for that. So after doing 200 designs, I realized that there was something powerful in Jim Kay's ...

If you’re not crying by the third act of “A Monster Calls,” you may want to have your humanity checked. Anyone who’s experienced grief will be moved by Patrick Ness’ story of a lonely 12 ...

Conor's monster is a yew tree, a huge, gnarled, creaking, elemental thing, as old as the Earth. It's kin to the traditional "green man", and the book does have some roots in ancient folklore.

The monster always comes after midnight, sharing fables about an evil queen, a heartless healer and an invisible man who demands to be seen. Bayona expresses the magic of the monster’s stories ...

Constructing the ominous tree creature that helps 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) cope while his mother (Felicity Jones) battles an illness in A Monster Calls was an exercise in patience.

The storytelling tree creature of J.A. Bayona's "A Monster Calls" adaptation grew from an international VFX collaboration.

“A Monster Calls” is one of those rare films about childhood that wasn’t made for children. The boy, Conor, is 12 (but MacDougall is a small, slight kid; until I looked up the plot synopsis ...