Hollywood's ongoing war against great children's books scores a late victory in Miguel Arteta's version of Judith Viorst's slim '70s classic. The technique for expanding a picture book to feature length film (granted, it's only 81 minutes) isn't great: after having the day in question, Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) wishes that …
Panic Room meets Wait Until Dark in this pitiless, uncommonly serviceable horror thriller. A pair of necessitous, romantically involved housebreakers (Jane Levy and Daniel Zovatto) partner with a college freshman (Dylan Minnette) whose dad’s position with a home-security provider helps to open a lot of doors. What could be easier …
Call it the Alien/Aliens effect. One alien on a single spaceship is a horror story, but a thousand aliens in a colony is almost necessarily an action pic. So while any single monster from R. L. Stine's series of young adult horror novels may have been enough to make kids …