When you take all the kid stuff out of Disney’s A Christmas Carol, it’s quite a good film. But those meddling kids…
As one of the most oft-told holiday stories, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol hardly needs any summary: crotchety old man gets visited by three ghosts and sees the error of his ways. Been there, seen it. Maybe even read it.
Well before the release of writer/director David Goyer’s The Unborn, the Dark Knight-scribe talked of a possible sequel to the dybbuk scare — an opportunity, he said, to go deeper into the origins of the spirit haunting lead Odette Yustman (Cloverfield). Now that the film has come forth, any idea of continuing the story should be aborted posthaste. With its [...]