The young cast do themselves proud. The story moves along at an appropriate pace with a number of nice twists and turns to keep all viewers happy. Impressive movie all in all.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: A fun Fantasy film involving time travel, monsters, fighting skeletons and a school for "gifted" children which is really different from Hogwarts. Eva Green is Miss Peregrine, monster killer and pedagogue supreme and an ace shot with a crossbow. Samuel L. Jackson is the Bond Villainesque baddie. Asa Butterfield is the new pupil travelling from 2016 to 1943, with Terence Stamp as his grandfather. 8/10.

When I first saw the trailer for the movie, it looked very interesting and good. And when I also saw that the movie would be directed by Tim Burton who I am a big fan of his work, I was really excited to go see this movie. But what I saw in theaters was a really boring and not a version of the book series. The only part of the movie I really liked was Samuel L. Jackson's character because he can always be the best part of a boring movie.

After reading the book, I was super excited to watch the movie- I loved it, the characters, the bizarre yet wonderful nature of the peculiar talents -I couldn't wait to watch the movie. And yet, I felt incredibly disappointed in the first ten minutes watching the movie. The acting was absolute garbage in my opinion, there was no emotion behind any of the characters, especially in the scene when Jake's grandfather dies- sure he looks concerned, but he shows nothing else to this and is much calmer about his grandfather dying in front of him than let on. The one-liners the children and Mr Barron have during the fight scene are actually yawn-inducing. That and I got more pissed off than I should've that Emma and Olive's powers were swapped in the book to movie process- why? I actually loved that Emma was a hot-head (literally) in the book and that that's who Jake takes an interest with. Instead, they make Emma a lighter-than-air blonde peculiar, because she'd be more accepted as a love interest by the audience?