Most adults eventually figure out that loneliness and bullying don’t stop when you get big. That’s also true when you’re REALLY big, as in the case of the humongous title character in Steven Spielberg ...

Magical at times and ponderous at others, Steven Spielberg’s “The BFG” is a big, friendly mixed bag, a very talky adventure that can’t figure out how to capitalize on the great character at its center ...

Mark Rylance was the man who said no to Steven Spielberg. In 1987, as an up-and-coming actor who’d already conquered the English stage, he turned down a key role in “Empire of the Sun,” preferring a ...

With Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg plans to leave himself on the cutting room floor. The book by Ernest Cline is a thriller about a kid on a high-stakes treasure hunt through a virtual reality ...

Roald Dahl’s “The BFG” begins in the middle of the night; that magic hour of 3 a.m. when everything’s hushed and, in the book’s words, “all the dark things come out from hiding and [have] the world to ...

“I had a dream last night.” The words arrive near the end of “The BFG,” and while they are thankfully not to be mistaken for that oldest of story-upending clichés (“It was all a dream”), they ...

Adapting Roald Dahl's The BFG for the big screen was no easy feat. But if there's anyone who can conjure some movie magic, it's Steven Spielberg. The film's director and producer worked overtime to ...