
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.
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.
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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