Spooky House

Minor kidpic too often plays like a Saturday-morning TV sitcom for preteens, but boasts an impressively subdued performance by Ben Kingsley as a reclusive magician who's forced out of semi-retirement. His character offers carte blanche for all manner of scenery-chewing excess, but Kingsley is all the more effective for underplaying Zamboni's onstage showmanship and offstage curmudgeonry. ... Full Review

It's always a little bit funny when a long-respected and heavily-awarded veteran actor shows up in a movie that looks like it was shot in someone's backyard over a three-day weekend. ... Full Article