Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Tim Burton’s Back to the Future version, with his trademark horror themes. A solid children’s film, where the hero hooks up with his own grandfather’s ex.
Ya see, Miss Peregrine is a clairvoyant shapeshifter, who turns into a peregrine falcon (I saw no Miss Vulture, Miss Stork, Miss Kakapo). She’s basically Professor X meets Doc Brown, a celibate headmistress, herding a bunch of X-Kids, by keeping them on a single day in history. Every day, for all eternity, she time travels one day into the past with the kids, to keep them safe.
The antagonist is a eloquent Samuel L. Jackson who wants the eyes of the X-Kids to become immortal. He is aided by some dumb soulless former people, even though the power of one of the good X-Kids is animating inanimate objects and corpses.
The plot has time travel, so check out your brain at the door and enjoy the fantastic imagery and actual young kids falling in love, even the beta couple. The Nazis bombing Wales in ‘43 is ahistorical, but it’s refreshing to have the Nazis not being the antagonist at all.
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.