Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Eva’s Xavier raises mutant misfits in dark shadows of time while bland Butterfield mopes around and stares Woodily at everything. Bizarre mix of digital and practical effects is almost as disconcerting as Jackson’s eyes, and ultimately no amount of hot air can make this plot-heavy ship float to the surface.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Sin City: Fall of a Franchise matches 300.2’s weird chronology, imitative superficiality and nude (albeit black and white) Green.  Rourke’s Kirk Douglas is a better match than Brolin’s Owen.  Could certainly have benefited from insurance against tragic deaths of Murphy, Duncan and character development.  SinCity: Are you in gold eye?

Dark Shadows

Burton’s fifth remake of the century is seventy percent Blast from the Past, thirty percent True Blood, and 100 percent underwhelming.  Standard white faced Sweeney Wonka returns in his least impressive Burton turn to date.  Green’s catwoman is great till she starts exorcising and Pfeiffer’s stardom is dusty and unimpressive.