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New releases this week range from the safe and treacly to the daring and inflammatory.<\/p>\nNew releases this week range from the safe and treacly to the daring and inflammatory.<\/p>\n
The film is adapted from the classic 1973 novel of the same name. It deals with a orphaned boy (Owen Vaccaro) who is sent to live with his eccentric uncle (Black) to his creepy old house in Michigan. However, his uncle isn’t just eccentric, he’s a warlock and his house’s previous owner was another warlock who turned his house into a doomsday device.<\/p>\n I’m all for scary kids fare, but it seems to me that this film is being released about a month early. This would be perfect Halloween fare.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/New-Releases-the-House-With-A-Clock-In-Its-Walls-poster-214x339.jpg\")
1. The House With a Clock In Its Walls (Universal, 3,592 Theaters, 104 Minutes, Rated PG for thematic elements including sorcery, some action, scary images, rude humor and language, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer at press time: 65% Fresh<\/a> [101 Reviews]: <\/strong>Two things threw me off about this movie when I first saw this trailer. One, it’s Jack Black in a Goosebumps<\/strong>-esque type film but not the forthcoming Goosebumps <\/strong>sequel. And, two, he shares the screen with Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett. Black is a better actor than he is given credit for, but still seems odd to have his name mentioned in the same breath as Blanchett’s.<\/p>\n