In this melodrama, Bobby Driscoll
stars as a young boy prone to fibs.
First out of the gate is JA Bayona's A Monster Calls, with Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson and newcomer Lewis MacDougall, who
stars as a young boy experiencing baroque, gorgeously animated visions in reaction to his mother's ailing physical state.
Not exact matches
The comics and magazines aimed at
young boys, such
as the Tiger, Roy of the Rovers, Charles Buchan's Football Monthly, Goal, Soccer
Star etc. positively encouraged appreciation of players and teams beyond your own.
Reaction: De Bruyne is my Man City blueprint — Guardiola (Premier League) Report: De Bruyne makes it sweet 16 for awesome Man City (Premier League) Report: Otamendi wins derby to fire Man City 11 points clear (Premier League) Reaction: Klopp calls for Liverpool focus after Euro spree (Champions League) Report: «Fab Four» fire seven - goal Liverpool into last 16 (Champions League) Reaction: Mourinho pledges only «the truth» on injuries (Champions League) Report: Lukaku and Rashford send Man United into last 16 (Champions League) Reaction: Mourinho wants new shooting boots for Lukaku (Premier League) Report: Old
boy Young downs Watford to lift Man United (Premier League) Reaction: Klopp looks on bright side after Chelsea draw (Premier League) Report: Willian denies Liverpool morale - boosting win (Premier League) Reaction: Guardiola targets Champions League milestone (Champions League) Report: Sterling strikes late to earn Man City top spot (Champions League) Report:
Young England stifle Neymar's Brazil (friendly) Reaction: Loftus - Cheek showed he can cut it — Southgate (friendly) Report: New
boys impress
as England hold Germany (friendly) Reaction: Mourinho defends lack of Lukaku charity (Champions League) Report: Hapless Svilar helps Man Utd to brink of last 16 (Champions League) Reaction: «Stand up and be counted», Klopp tells Liverpool (Premier League) Report: Spurs» Kane rips sorry Liverpool to shreds (Premier League) Reaction: Guardiola proud to beat «best opponents» Napoli (Champions League) Report: Jesus earns Man City narrow win over Napoli (Champions League) Reaction: Mourinho and Klopp at odds over Anfield stalemate (Premier League) Report: Man Utd held at Liverpool
as Mourinho parks the bus (Premier League) Report: McClean breaks Welsh hearts
as Ireland reach play - offs (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Southgate admits England have long way to go (2018 World Cup) Report: Kane sends lacklustre England to World Cup (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Man City's show of force thrills Guardiola (Champions League) Report: Chelsea old
boy De Bruyne gives Man City crucial win (Champions League) Reaction: «Amazing» Lukaku won't lose focus — Mourinho (Champions League) Report: Lukaku and Martial lead Man United in CSKA rout (Champions League) Reaction: Klopp says Liverpool on track despite stalemate (Champions League) Report: Coutinho scores
as Liverpool held in Moscow (Champions League) Reaction: Man United part of «second level», says Mourinho (Champions League) Report: Fix - it Fellaini gets Man United off the mark (Champions League) Reaction: De Bruyne masterclass leaves Guardiola purring (Premier League) Report: Mané sent off
as five -
star Man City crush Liverpool (Premier League) Reaction: Alli gesture takes shine off England win (2018 World Cup) Report: Rashford redemption sends England closer to Russia (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Klopp hopes Euro progress yields transfer lift (Champions League) Report: Can brace gets Liverpool back into big time (Champions League) Report: Sterling rescue act spares 10 - man Man City (Premier League) Reaction: Conte happy for Chelsea to play the hunters (Premier League) Report: Alonso ruins Spurs» Wembley house - warming (Premier League) Report: Lukaku double fires Man United to winning start (Premier League) Reaction: Wenger lauds Giroud after Arsenal edge Leicester (Premier League) Report: Giroud earns Arsenal madcap opening win (Premier League) Reaction: Wenger fearful of another slow Arsenal start (Community Shield) Report: Courtois and Morata gift Arsenal victory at Wembley (Community Shield)
Heavily hyped and featuring a new little
boy character to appeal to the
young fry
as well
as an appearance by wrestling
star The Rock
as the Scorpion King, The Mummy Returns made a record - setting debut in early May 2001.
Clint Eastwood won kudos from theater fans for tapping Broadway
stars for his movie adaptation of 2014's «Jersey
Boys,» but John Lloyd
Young was a better singer and stage performer than actor in his performance
as Frankie Valli.
Haim
stars as Chris Griffin, a pizza delivery
boy whose
younger brother Miltie (Devin Clark) gets caught up with the local drug - pusher gang, the Rollerboys.
Within a few years, the
younger Stevens was one of the most sought - after beefcake leads in Hollywood,
starring in such films
as Massacre at Central High (1976), The Fury (1978) and The
Boys in Company C (1978), and appearing in the regular role of Andrew Thorpe on the 1977 TV western The Oregon Trail.
The abundant tropes remind the viewer of those featured in vehicles favored by the likes of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn, men's men who made movies for men that weren't even likely to interest
boys with a taste for action,
as the work of the next generation of action
stars (Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Norris» other slightly
younger Expendables cast mates) would.
The new 10 - episode mystery series Gracepoint (airing Thursdays) at least has a solid pedigree, remaking last summer's acclaimed eight - part Broadchurch from BBC America, even
starring David Tennant in the same role (albeit with an off - putting attempt at an American accent)
as a detective newly arrived in a coastal California town, where the murder of a
young boy rocks the local residents to the core — including his resentful partner (Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn)-- turning neighbor against neighbor until a shattering denouement.
Kidman
stars as Anna, a delicate
young widow who is on the verge of a new life when a solemn little
boy appears, claiming to be the reincarnation of her dead husband.
He is fortunate in his
star cast, especially
young Jacob Tremblay (of Oscar - winner Room), who conveys Auggie's little -
boy fears and hopes, tears and smiles, despite that face, and Julia Roberts
as Auggie's mother Isabel.
Starring Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning, and Billy Crudup, this unique, 1970s - set coming - of - age story follows a teenage
boy named Jamie
as he attempts to navigate the wild waters of
young adulthood and his eccentric single mother (Bening) does the best she can to aid him on his journey.
Over the course of their 40 - minute interview, Banks and Dano — who
star as Melinda Ledbetter and the
young Beach
Boys leading man, Brian Wilson, respectively — chatted about the film, their eclectic careers, and their advice to actors.
The big evening hit at the Eccles was Patrick Stettner's «The Night Listener,» an eerie, Hitchcockian thriller
starring Robin Williams
as a gay late - night disk jockey whose publisher friend (Joe Morton) asks him to read a manuscript about a
young boy (Rory Culkin) tortured by his parents and now dying of AIDS under the care of a foster mother in Wisconsin (Toni Collette).
Midnight Special «s Jaeden Lieberher
stars as the eponymous Henry, a
young boy genius who is way older than his
young years.
Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated
as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows of the time to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts
as the Rhythm
Boys (featuring a
young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers overseen by Whiteman himself (including a larger - than - life rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue»)-- all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson and beautifully shot in early Technicolor.
Released on 27th February, we've been sent over the trailer for Universal thriller The
Boy Next Door, which
stars Jennifer Lopez (Parker)
as a teacher who falls for the
young lad next door — only for his obsession to go too far.
Jodelle Ferland
stars as a
young babysitter of a nine - year - old
boy whose father was killed years earlier in the same house their still living in.
Aaron Eckhart
stars as a scientist out to prove that possession is a disease, and he is introduced to a
young boy more powerfully possessed than he's ever encountered.
Luckily, this remake of the 1943 film My Friend Flicka (that
starred a very
young Roddy McDowell
as the main character) has stayed true to the essence of Mary O'Hara's story, even if the lead role was given to a girl instead of a
boy.
Matt Johnson writes,
stars and directs
as a
young boy who retreats into the fantasy world of film,
starring in the movies that run constantly in his head
as a means to escape the constant torment and bullying inflicted on him by his peers.
With the
younger of the father / daughter duo denoting Spelunky, Super Meat
Boy and Castle Crashers
as her favourite games, and gazing upon the excellence of Super Chibi Knight
as a result, it appears that in this case at least, we have an industry
star in the making.
Opening Valentine's Day, «Endless Love»
stars Bruce Greenwood and Joely Richardson
as parents that find themselves divided when their daughter, Jade (Gabriella Wilde), falls hopelessly in love with a charismatic
young boy, David (Alex Pettyfer), who loves her
as much
as she loves him.
Opening Valentine's Day, «Endless Love»
stars Bruce Greenwood and Joely Richardson
as parents that find themselves divided when their daughter, Jade (Gabriella Wilde), falls hopelessly in love with a charismatic
young boy...
«Wonderstruck» Release Date: TBD Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Cory Michael Smith and Tom Noonan Synopsis: The story of a
young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a
young girl in New York from fifty years ago
as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
«The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara» Release Date: TBD Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Mark Rylance and Isaac Eshete Synopsis: «The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara» recounts the story of a
young Jewish
boy in Bologna, Italy in 1858 who, having been secretly baptized, is forcibly taken from his family to be raised
as a Christian.
Chris Pratt
stars as Peter Quill, a member of an intergalactic group of thieves and smugglers who was kidnapped from Earth
as a
young boy.
Yet, even with the storyline lulls, the fact that it jumps from story to story every few minutes keeps you from falling asleep,
as your interest will pick right back up again once you see Hugh Grant (Two Weeks Notice, About a
Boy)
as the Prime Minister, Colin Firth (What a Girl Wants, Hope Springs) attempting to break through a language barrier, Liam Neeson (Gangs of New York, K - 19) encouraging his
young son to be a fool for love, or Bill Nighy (I Capture the Castle, Underworld) chew up scenery with an outlandishly fiendish burnt - out rock
star performance.
Starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment, the flick follows a
young boy who can communicate with people who don't know they're dead
as he seeks help from a jaded child psychologist.
What's Coming Jan. 1: «E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial» Steven Spielberg's sci - fi classic
stars Henry Thomas
as a lonely
young boy who befriends an alien stranded on earth.
Max Irons (The Host)
stars as Yuri, a
young Ukrainian
boy who lives in a small village with his valiant father Yaroslav (Barry Pepper - much more on him later), his mother Olena (Lucy Brown), and his saber wielding grandfather Ivan (Stamp).
20th Century Women Rated R for sexual material, language, some nudity and brief drug use Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88 % In this thoughtful and touching dramedy, Annette Bening
stars as a single mother to a
young boy in the late 70's who tries to raise him right, fully aware that he is growing up with an over-abundance of women in his life.
Peter Quill, the self proclaimed
Star Lord (Chris Pratt), is an Earthling who,
as a
young boy, was abducted by space pirates known
as Ravagers, led by Yondu (Michael Rooker), and adopted
as one of their own.
Initially planned to
star Cate Blanchett, James Franco and Greta Gerwig nearly four years ago, the project finally got before cameras last year, with «Greenberg»
star Ben Stiller reuniting with Baumbach in the lead role, Naomi Watts
as his wife, and Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried
as their
younger counterparts, with Brady Corbet, Charles Grodin, Dree Hemingway and Beastie
Boy Adam Horowitz in supporting roles.
The series also
stars Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker)
as police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, Douglas Smith (Miss Sloane) and Matthew Shear (Mistress America)
as Marcus and Lucius Isaacson, twin brothers who help unravel the disturbing mystery; Matt Lintz (Pixels)
as Stevie, a tough,
young boy employed by Dr. Kreizler
as a driver and errand
boy; Robert Ray Wisdom (The Wire)
as Cyrus, Kreizler's valet, a man with a dark past who has been reformed by Kreizler; and Q'orianka Kilcher (The New World)
as Mary, Kreizler's mute maid with whom he shares a special unspoken connection.
Greg Berlanti's film, adapted from the best - selling
young - adult novel «Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,»
stars Nick Robinson
as a gay 17 - year - old who has yet to come out when another closeted
boy from his high school begins an anonymous e-mail romance.
The beautiful
young starlet enjoyed a successful career,
starring in movies such
as Sin City, 8 Mile and Riding in Cars with
Boys.
Finn Wolfhard
stars in the hit Netflix Original Series Stanger Things,
as Mike Wheeler, a bullied
young boy who becomes an unlikely hero in the quest to save his best friend.
Chris Farley
stars in Tommy
Boy as Tommy Callahan III, a
young man who has just graduated from college (after 7 years) and returns to his hometown of Sandusky, Ohio to work for his father, «Big» Tom Callahan (Brian Dennehy), in his auto part factory.
There are teenagers who perfectly fit the stereotypical image that the media loves so much of comic - book fans, little kids who love anime,
young boys and girls out with their confused parents, cosplaying parents out with their confused children, entire families dressed up
as the cast of Firefly or
as Star Wars characters,, bemused grandparents being lead around with a smile on their face that suggests while they are a little baffled by the entire thing they're having a good time, middle - aged men and women who look like they've just come straight from work and enjoy a good comic and every other type of human in - between.
With the
younger of the father / daughter duo denoting Spelunky, Super Meat
Boy and Castle Crashers
as her favourite games, and gazing upon the excellence of Super Chibi Knight
as a result, it appears that in this case at least, we have an industry
star in the making.
The three prequel stories
star him
as Anakin Skywalker and show his transformation from
young boy to Jedi Knight to Sith Lord.
Released for the Nintendo Game
Boy Color in 1999, it
stars a
young Terry from Dragon Quest VI
as the hero.