Goosebumps

Rob Letterman’s Goosebumps brings the children’s horror novels to life -literally- as the creatures created by R.L. Stine (Jack Black) leap off the page to terrorise an unsuspecting town. When I first heard what the premise of this film would be I wasn’t at all optimistic. It seems like the sort of low rent nonsense that Jack…

On the Silver Screen – The Giver

Phillip Noyce directs The Giver, an adaptation of the Lois Lowry novel of the same name. In a seemingly perfect society where there is no war or conflict of any kind, no pain or suffering at the expense of choice; a young man named Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) is chosen to take on the role of…