Some sharp talent and technique has been applied to an old chestnut of a story in "Monster House ... with Bones (Jason Lee), the amusingly odious b.f. of DJ’s punky babysitter, Zee (Maggie ...

You've got to hand it to a filmmaking team that can take a hoary old set of story tools -- cute kids, a haunted house ... baby sitter Zee (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and her boyfriend Bones (Jason ...

I don’t know about you, but my kiddos love some Monster House. And so today ... Nebbercracker with Maggie Gyllenhaal as Elizabeth “Zee”, and Kevin James as Senior Police Officer Landers.

Some amusement-park rides (“Pirates of the Caribbean,” “The Haunted Mansion”) become movies. “Monster House,” a mostly irresistible animated feature co-produced by Steven Spielberg and ...