Jack and the Beanstalk is one of the few English folktales Americans know by heart. A peasant boy sells his abusive guardian's livestock for some beans, the beans get wet, a beanstalk grows, and off ...

Bryan Singer's film left THR's Todd McCarthy searching for an "original or singular element to this handsome reupholstering of the English folk tale." By THR Staff Jack The Giant Slayer Bill Nighy- H ...

Fee-fi-fo-fum, “Jack the Giant Slayer” left me numb. After viewing all of the expensive computer-generated giants in this competent but uninspired fantasy, I wish they’d chosen to use actors instead ...

In some of the new poster images from “Jack the Giant Slayer,” one sees tiny hairs jutting from the points of the giants” noses, with schmutz furling out between bone-gnawing gnarls of teeth. These ...

There’s one reason and one reason only why we’re covering Jack the Giant Slayer: It has monsters. Giant monsters in fact (obviously), and we have here Image Gallery #1 for the film, which is ...

The fairy tale known as “Jack and the Beanstalk” centers on a hapless kid who stupidly accepts “magic beans” for his widowed mother’s most valuable asset, a cow, and then, when those beans lead him to ...

JACK AND THE BEAN COUNTERS Singer’s $300 million bomb may well be among the biggest in movie history. Once upon a time, when Hollywood couldn’t come up with good ideas for movies, it resorted to ...

It’s clear from the unconvincing trailers that New Line’s marketing wing is as stymied about who Jack the Giant Slayer was made for as I am. Too simple-minded and bloodless for older, action-hungry ...

Jack the Giant Slayer is the newest in the line of gritty reboots to children’s stories. Much like the recent Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, it gives us a dark thrill ride loosely based on the ...