Tag: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Hollows, Eyeballs, and Bees, Oh My: The Puzzling Miss Peregrine

Hollows, Eyeballs, and Bees, Oh My: The Puzzling Miss Peregrine

December 13, 2016 | By

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)

DVD: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

December 13, 2016 | By

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…

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The Composers of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

The Composers of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

October 12, 2016 | By

New podcasts with Mike Higham and Matthew Margeson, the composers of Tim Burton’s latest film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, plus a review of La-La Land’s soundtrack CD.

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CD: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

CD: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

October 12, 2016 | By

In a radical move for director Tim Burton, the score for his latest film was written by the collaborative team of Mike Higham and Matthew Margeson, both skilled in composing, orchestrating, and arranging for a diversity of projects…

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