Tim Burton was a natural to direct “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.” Heck, it’s easy to imagine him growing up there. So why does the resulting movie feel so bland?
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The new drama about the 2010 tragedy spends its first half doing its best to explain what’s about to go wrong and its second half covering a bunch of actors in mud and oil as they run around in cramped quarters while things blow up all around them. Despite its best intentions, neither half makes much sense.
No other series I can think of has dealt with such serious topics as clinical depression and PTSD in ways that are heartbreaking and hilarious, sometimes simultaneously. Deep down, there’s a surprising amount of heart for a show about people so very badly damaged.
Before you go getting your hide chapped that Hollywood remade “The Magnificent Seven,” remember one thing: “The Magnificent Seven” itself was a remake.
A 500-foot-long section of Cheyenne Avenue in North Las Vegas has sunk up to 2 feet in some sections, prompting the Nevada Department of Transportation to start making repairs Thursday night.
After a promising start, “Bridget Jones’s Baby” gets more nonsensical as it goes, culminating in a ridiculous race to the hospital that should have embarrassed everyone involved.
Louis C.K. would have to open a vein to spread any more of his DNA across some of the fall’s best new shows.
Put Tom Hanks in charge of pretty much any vessel — be it the container ship from “Captain Phillips,” the lunar module from “Apollo 13,” even the school bus from “Bachelor Party” — and something is bound to go wrong.
So how are the networks trying to get viewers excited about the new fall season? The same way Hollywood studios court moviegoers: remakes.
Rutina Wesley’s career has come full circle, with that circle represented by an “O.” As in Oprah.