Miss Peregrine’s Home Has Some Structural Damage
Movies based on widely-read books can be tricky. Will it be true to the story? Will the characters look and...
Gregg "Wonderllama" Snider
2016 Movie Season Close-Out, Part One
Summer 2016 gave us some big hits and some very big misses. For every Captain America: Civil War and Kubo...
New Ghostbusters Needs Less Of The Original
Has any movie in the past 10-15 years hit theaters as loaded with expectation as Ghostbusters? Is it possible to...
Alice Returns In Lightweight Hypercolor Sequel
A new Tim Burton movie is a lot like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going...
Quiet Moments Can’t Fix Overreach of ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’
After watching X-Men: Apocalypse, the third entry in the new-look X-Men series, one word comes to mind. Hubris. It features...
‘Jungle Book’ Does Justice To Disney Animated Classic
Disney pulls off several neat tricks in the most recent adaptation of The Jungle Book. It combines several parts of...
‘Midnight Special’ Is A Special Sci-Fi Movie
Going into the screening of the new Jeff Nichols sci-fi drama, Midnight Special, I knew it starred several big names...
Little Links This Psychological Thriller to ‘Cloverfield’
Bottle movies are a classic approach to filmmaking. By shooting the movie almost entirely in a single interior location, filmmakers...
Second Episode Spells Improvement For ‘The Magicians’
If Episode 1 of The Magicians was very much a pilot episode -- full of character introductions, world building, and...
Syfy’s New Series ‘The Magicians’ Fails To Cast A Clear Spell
Quick, name the series: A hidden school for magicians-in-training; a smart, geeky teen with issues learns he is a magic-user...