If anybody could bring The Lovely Bones to the screen, Peter Jackson would seem a perfect fit. The director of the worldly Heavenly Creatures (teenage girls, murder) and the otherworldly Lord of the ...

Mark Wahlberg is an actor whose performances have ranged from terrific (Three Kings, The Departed) to downright embarrassing (Max Payne, The Happening) so we’re pretty interested in seeing how things ...

A one-film cabinet of curiosities, The Lovely Bones turns the most successful CGI director of the ’00s loose on one of the decade’s prime literary phenomena: Cults collide as Peter “Lord of the Rings” ...

In Alice Sebold’s bestselling book “The Lovely Bones,” after 14-year-old Susie Salmon is raped and murdered by her next-to-door neighbor, she ends up in the afterworld, not quite heaven, but a sort of ...

A one-film cabinet of curiosities, The Lovely Bones turns the most successful CGI director of the ’00s loose on one of the decade’s prime literary phenomena: Cults collide as Peter “Lord of the Rings” ...

Narrated by a murdered 13-year-old girl looking down upon her family from heaven, Alice Sebold's 2002 novel "The Lovely Bones" managed an impressive feat: It held the divine and the earthly in ...

Fresh out of an Oscar nomination for her role in “Atonement,” 15-year-old Saoirse (pronounced “sir-sha”) Ronan has just leapt into another dramatic venture. “The Lovely Bones,” an adaptation of Alice ...

Danni Turner is a feature writer with a bachelor's degree in Graphic Arts and a master's degree in Gender and Media. She is an A24 megafan who enjoys writing about horror movies and female ...

Every once in a while there comes along a high-profile Hollywood effects extravaganza so misguided, so full of eyebrow-raising wow-they-went-there moments that it demands to be seen—preferably on the ...

Deep inside every piece of rock, inside every slab of wood, lies a masterpiece waiting to be whittled out and uncovered. Sometimes, more often than many realize, a film maker doesn’t quite know when ...