Kubo and the Two Strings is the latest stop motion masterpiece ... being out at night when the Moon King and her wicked twin sisters (both voiced Rooney Mara) can find him, and take his eye ...

The “Kubo and the Two Strings” grandfather character’s collar was borrowed from “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”) The cloak of Rooney Mara’s evil spirit sisters, above, is made of 183 ...

For a kid who has just one eye, Kubo sure can see a lot of things. Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson) is the afflicted hero at the center of Laika’s “Kubo and the Two strings”, a stop-motion ...

What the ancient-Japan-set Kubo and the Two Strings offers is less Edward Gorey ... her rules and stays out after dark, her estranged sisters will come to collect his remaining eye, she says ...

Yet stop-motion animation studio Laika breathes new life into this tired theme in the opening scenes of Kubo and the Two Strings ... by his mother's two evil sisters (Rooney Mara), witchlike ...

Laika’s fascination with folktales gets more sweeping and exotic with the samurai adventure, “Kubo and the Two Strings,” expanding ... And we’ve been able to draw on all periods in ...

In Kubo and the Two Strings, a brave, one-eyed Japanese boy is faced with ... since his birth mother spent her last bit of magic defending Kubo from her two sisters (Rooney Mara). Those persistently ...

If there’s any moment in “Kubo and the Two Strings” that best demonstrates ... Monkey not only fights the evil sister, but Kubo and Beetle also get entangled underwater with sea monsters ...