{"id":14920,"date":"2016-12-13T02:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14920"},"modified":"2016-12-13T02:30:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:30:31","slug":"hollows-eyeballs-and-bees-oh-my-the-puzzling-miss-peregrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14920","title":{"rendered":"Hollows, Eyeballs, and Bees, Oh My: The Puzzling Miss Peregrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14923\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MissPeregrine_Holo-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"MissPeregrine_Holo\" width=\"520\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MissPeregrine_Holo-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MissPeregrine_Holo-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MissPeregrine_Holo-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MissPeregrine_Holo.jpg 1142w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tim Burton&#8217;s recent track record hasn&#8217;t been as steady as years past &#8211; the last grisly endeavour,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/s\/3273_SweeneyTodd2007.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sweeney Todd -The Demon Barber of Fleet Street<\/a><\/strong> (2007) was also divisive among his fans, but connoisseurs of the music, the story, and the volumes of blood-letting were giddy &#8211; and yet it&#8217;s unfair to draw such stark parallels to his latest work, an adaptation of Ransom Riggs&#8217; best-selling\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14917\">Miss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children<\/a><\/strong> (2016), but being a Burton film, one expects dark subtext, and a style, plotting, and a low percentage of illogical elements coalesce into something that works for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more than a sense corners were cut in building characters, and plot points were hastily redrawn to keep the film&#8217;s pacing tight and running time under 2 hours. The film does work, but not so smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted a review of Fox&#8217;s DVD, and those interested in hearing the composers take on working with Tim Burton should check out separate podcasts with Mike Higham and Matthew Margeson. In spite of the film&#8217;s flaws, the score is quite eerie, lovely, and restrained &#8211; and marks a rare occurrence where a Burton film wasn&#8217;t scored by Danny Elfman. Links to both podcasts (via iTunes, Libsyn, and YouTube) are in <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14474\">this prior Editor&#8217;s Blog<\/a>, plus a CD review.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon will be a longer interview with Higham, who discusses the art of his additional skills as a seasoned music editor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next:<\/em> an updated review of Arthur Penn&#8217;s flawed drama <strong>The Chase<\/strong> (1966), new on Blu via Twilight Time, and sporting one hell of a fact-filled commentary track.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Tim Burton&#8217;s Miss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children (2016), based on the novel by Ransom Riggs, and released on disc by Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2562,2563,4708,4839,1247],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MissPeregrine_eyeballs_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3SE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14927,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions\/14927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}