Hollows, Eyeballs, and Bees, Oh My: The Puzzling Miss Peregrine
Review of Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016), based on the novel by Ransom Riggs, and released on disc by Fox.
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DVD: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Tim Burton’s latest work is itself a peculiar film that’s likely to sit better with its intended family audience than genre fans wanting an eerie tale with dark subtext and a heavier Gothic atmosphere. Ransom Riggs’ story, as adapted by Jane Goldman (Kingsman: The Secret Service), is of kids with special powers forced to relive the same 24 hours since 1943. It’s an odd hook that seems implausible…
Robert Aldrich’s Emperor of the North (1973)
Review of Robert Aldrich’s 1973 cult film Emperor of the North (1973), released in a stellar HD transfer via Twilight Time + some minor editorial blather on this amazing director.
BR: Emperor of the North (1973)
Robert Aldrich did not make movies about nice people, but rather flawed groups of barely contained ire and rage worming through tales of cruel irony or a mean finale, often centered on two rivals, so it’s not hard to see why the tough director was attracted to Christopher Knopf’s lean, mean little script…
A Runaway Classic: Runaway Train (1985)
Review of Twilight Time’s excellent Blu-ray edition of Runaway Train (1985) + from the KQEK.com archives, La-La Land’s packed soundtrack CD.
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