If you're bedeviled by goblins hanging around the house, mix up a potion of tomato sauce, oatmeal and salt to use on them: They'll melt like the Wicked Witch of the West. That's one of the handy tips ...

REVIEW The Spiderwick Chronicles Who: With Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Sarah Bolger. Directed by Mark Waters. Rated: PG for scary creature action and violence, peril and some thematic ele ...

Games based on family movies often look and play like cheaply made quickies, but that's not the case with Sierra's pleasantly bright "The Spiderwick Chronicles," which turns in a surprisingly ...

Created by Aron Eli Coleite, The Spiderwick Chronicles is an upcoming coming-of-age fantasy series based on the children’s book series of the same name by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The plot ...

Coming on the heels of Harry Potter, The Spiderwick Chronicles can't help but look derivative: Troubled child uncovers a charmed world and fends off the powers of evil, soaring over glade and glen on ...

Spinning five short books into one sleek yarn, "The Spiderwick Chronicles" is a brisk, fine-tuned adaptation of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's bestselling children's series. The disappointing ...

Freudians disheartened by the Bearded One’s fall from psychotherapeutic grace may be cheered to learn that ol’ Sigmund lives and prospers at the movies, at least in child-friendly cinema. The ...

Oh, Harry Potter what have you wrought? From the slightly better than mediocre The Golden Compass and Chronicles of Narnia to the laughably bad Eragon and The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, there’s ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Mark Waters’ The Spiderwick Chronicles doesn’t bring anything particularly new to the fantasy genre. In fact, I don’t think I saw ...

The Spiderwick Chronicles isn't bad for a game-of-the-movie, but it's not good for a game. The Spiderwick Chronicles will not make your inner child throw itself on the ground screaming, or cause your ...