Nearly two decades after fans were introduced to The Spiderwick Chronicles, a new magic-chasing family is re-imagining its story. Based on a series of books by by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles tells the story of the Grace family, who in this adaptation, moves from Brooklyn, New York, to their ancestral home in Henson, Michigan -- the Spiderwick Estate. Shortly after Helen (Joy Bryant) makes the move with her 15-year-old fraternal twin boys, Jared (Lyon...
Roku's 'The Spiderwick Chronicles,' starring Christian Slater and Joy
Stories are one of the most common threads that bind all of humanity together. Regardless of who you are, there are stories that define your childhood and possibly your adulthood.
While Slater is dastardly fun in the new take on “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” the Roku series—originally meant for Disney+—works better as a family drama than a fantasy adventure.
In the funny, terrifying, colorful, oddly lovely, lovably odd "Dead Boy Detectives," premiering Thursday on Netflix, deceased putative teenagers Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri) investigate what's troubling troubled ghosts. Created by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner for DC Comics, the eponymous team was born on the pages of "The Sandman" in 1991 and made an appearance, played by much younger actors, in the third season of "Doom Patrol," the best of all superhero series. But the...
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
The Apple Watch Series 9 is available for the low price of $299, saving you $100. That's the newest Apple Watch's lowest price yet.
If you are like me, you LOVE movie trailers. I’m dating myself here, but before youtube, let’s say 1988 B.Y. – through the 90’s there were 30 minute shows on tv specifically produced to show
The second season of the Netflix reboot of Heartbreak High was released last week and it has quickly become one of the top ten most-watched series in the world.
Been taking some rides on the nostalgia train recently with X-Men '97? Xbox wants you to keep that locomotive chugging, as it's giving away a Series X themed around the show. While the MCU is yet to fully reintroduce the X-Men into its live action universe (or I guess multiverse these days), Disney has still brought a continuation of the original '90s X-Men series to its streaming service, X-Men '97. The revival more or less picks things up where the original series left off, continuing on...
Brad Fittler and Andrew Johns butt heads over the punch on debate, but both
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