If you read Stephen King's 1980 short story "The Monkey" and went into Osgood Perkins' new movie "The Monkey" expecting basically the same thing, I have some bad news for you. Perkins' absurdist ...

“The Monkey” is in theaters now. “Longlegs” director Osgood Perkins adapts a Stephen King short story, collected for eternity in “Skeleton Crew,” which stars Theo James as twin ...

The gobsmacking success of Chinese animated feature “Ne Zha 2,” which recently topped $2 billion in China to become the first ever to break that record in a single market, has got toon-makers ...

The Monkey stars Theo James as a pair of twins haunted by a cymbal-smacking monkey toy. Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Elijah Wood (Lord of The Rings, Yellowjackets), and Adam Scott (Severance ...

Tasha Robinson is Polygon’s entertainment editor. She’s covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. Ne Zha 2 features a combat ...

Even though the last few months have been relatively rough for horror movies, this week's The Monkey needn't worry too much. While major mainstream films have under-performed at the box office ...

In China, you risk being seen as unpatriotic if you haven't seen the animated sequel that's on track to gross more than $2 billion in a single market. With that in mind, it should come as no ...

Also, as we mentioned, in a flood of horror films already YTD, i.e. Heart Eyes, Companion, etc, The Monkey has the best ... Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Dog Man is third for the week with ...

That’s the only explanation for the numbing lack of thrills or chills or dread in Osgood Perkins’ “The Monkey.” Given its overabundance of empty shock humor, the movie seems afraid to be ...

Of course, all machinations are born of a cursed monkey toy that proves impossible to get rid of, whether hacked to pieces or thrown down a well. The harsh, circus twang of the music that plays as ...

Netflix never lets a summer go by without a few blockbusters of its own. The Monkey King is Netflix’s big animated movie of the season, and it takes a very famous Chinese novel and adds new life ...

"Like life," is the warning that arrives with The Monkey's titular stuffed animal, the words emblazoned on a hat box tween twins Hal and Bill (both played by Canadian Christian Convery at his ...