The film itself is based on Brian Selznick’s award-winning “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” an illustrated novel about a Parisian boy and a broken automaton with a secret buried inside its ...

Hugo should be so very loveable. It's directed by Martin Scorsese, his first family film, his first in 3D, and he's passionately committed to the project. It has a grand cast, including the likes ...

The film itself is based on Brian Selznick’s award-winning ‘The Invention of Hugo Cabret,’ an illustrated novel about a Parisian boy and a broken automaton with a secret buried inside its ...

The film itself is based on Brian Selznick’s award-winning “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” an illustrated novel about a Parisian boy and a broken automaton with a secret buried inside its ...

The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Martin Scorsese’s 3D debut, is one of the most anticipated films of this year. Not least it will give moviegoers the chance to see how the filmmaker adapts to the ...

Film Review: Hugo (3.5 stars)Back to video Hugo is also repairing a broken automaton; imagine a quarter-scale steampunk C-3PO holding a quill.

Hugo is played with jolting melodramatic pathos – and the genetic blessing of bottomless, pale blue eyes – by Asa Butterfield (“The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”).

Based on Brian Selznick's 2007 illustrated children's novel, the story takes place inside Paris's Montparnasse train station in 1931, where 12-year-old Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield), the orphaned ...

Hugo's recently deceased father, a clockmaker, worked in a museum where he discovered an automaton: a human-like figure seated at a desk, pen in hand, as if ready to deliver a message.