Novelist Ransom Riggs and Tim Burton should have been an ideal match, but Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children (2016) is yet another verification that this director is at the end of his tether. Burton can’t take the sole blame. He shares that honor with screenwriter Jane Goldman, who previously scripted two of the better X-Men sagas. … Continue reading MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (2016)
DIRECTED BY: Spike Lee FEATURING: Teyonah Parris, Nick Cannon, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett, Wesley Snipes, Dave Chappelle, Harry Lennix, David Patrick Kelly, D.B. Sweeney PLOT: A modern adaptation of the Classical Greek comedy “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes set against the backdrop of gun violence in Chicago: the girlfriend of a gang … Continue reading CAPSULE: CHI-RAQ (2015)
Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons… Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links. DVR ALERT – (Turner Classic Movies, Sat, Jan. 30, 2:00 AM EST): Some Call It Loving (1973): Read El Rob Hubbard’s review. Sexy fairy tale about … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 1/29/2016
DIRECTED BY: Chester Novell Turner FEATURING: Shirley L. Jones PLOT: A sexually-repressed church lady buys a magical puppet who comes to life and rapes her, waking her slumbering libido. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Chester Novell Turner deserves some sort of weird movie recognition for his two movie opus of Black Devil Doll from … Continue reading CAPSULE: BLACK DEVIL DOLL FROM HELL (1984)
Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons… Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links. IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE): Convento: Documentary about a family of bohemian artists living in an abandoned Portuguese monastery, focusing on the son who builds robots with … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 7/27/2012