"A Monster Calls"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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For our second review of the week, myself and Kristen break out the tissues and discuss the powerful film "A Monster Calls" starring Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall & Liam Neeson. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - @negsbestfilmpodcast iTunes Podcasts - itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-…d1087678387?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of a monster calls.
0:05.9	Okay, are you ready?
0:07.4	There we go.
0:09.4	What color is that?
0:11.7	Yeah.
0:15.7	Maybe if we take a pencil, and then we make a face. And then we see the life in the eyes. Life is always in the eyes. There's a monster. How does the story begin? With a boy, too old, to be a kid.
0:44.3	You're coming to live with me.
0:46.3	Don't touch anything.
0:48.3	Too young to be a man.
0:52.3	I no longer see you.
0:57.1	What do they do?
1:03.5	Okay, everyone, you were just listening to the trailer for Monster Calls, and the story of which is as follows.
1:06.9	Connor is dealing with far more than other boys his age.
1:09.2	His beloved and devoted mother is ill.
1:12.6	He has little in common with his imperious grandmother.
1:20.7	His father has resettled thousands of miles away, but Connor finds a most unlikely ally when the monster appears at his bedroom window one night. Ancient, wild, and relentless,
1:29.6	the monster guides Connor on a journey of courage, faith, and truth that powerfully fuses imagination and reality. And the cast includes
1:37.7	Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Keble, Lewis McDougall, and Liam Neeson.
1:49.1	It is directed by J.A. Bayona and is written by Patrick Ness.
1:52.1	Joining me for this review, I have Kristen Lopez.
1:53.6	Hello, everybody.
1:55.2	Hello, Kristen.
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