Directed by stop-motion maestro Henry Selick, "James and the Giant Peach" is wonderfully bizarre. Many adaptations of Roald Dahl's work are too, but the film doesn't shy away from the original story's ...

Films like 1933's"King Kong" and 1963's "Jason and the Argonauts" were hugely influential in the medium, but they're mostly live-action with some spectacular stop-motion components. That's why these ...