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 ...

There’s no shortage of ghoulies, goblins and things that go bump in the night in “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” the new fantasy film based on Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s popular children’s novels, ...

This interactive adaptation of the movie of the books is one of those games that starts off better than you expect, and then slowly droops to being exactly what you expect. At one point, near the ...

Holly Black grew up as ordinary a kid as they come. She spent her summers at the beach, five miles from her home in West Long Branch, N.J., sailing on her father's boat and trying to catch frogs with ...

With character names like Hogsqueal, Mulgarath and Thimbletack, it’s got to be derivative. So it’s not altogether surprising that Mark Waters’ (“Freaky Friday,” “Mean Girls”) adaptation of “The ...

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 ...

The Spiderwick Chronicles has all the elements that make up great kids' movies: a haunted house, a family secret, an ordinary child granted an extraordinary skill, and an emotional subplot that ...