TheRetroCritic

A convenient 27 years after the memorable miniseries, we are finally treated to a movie adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel IT with Bill Skarsgård taking on the role of creepy killer clown Pennywise made iconic by Tim Curry back in the day. The film focuses on the child characters, a group of seven friends who are each terrorised by random sightings of Pennywise years after the latter abducted a child called Georgie by luring him into the sewers. Georgie's older brother Bill (Jaeden Lieberher) has been trying to find him ever since and this becomes his and his friends' main goal. Unfortunately, particularly dangerous bullies, crappy lives at home and specific fears brought up by Pennywise get in the way of their mission. Like an ingenuous mix of Stand By Me and The Goonies with some  Stranger Things thrown in, IT is both an effective coming-of-age story with a group of very different but equally likeable kids at its heart and a supernatural horror film every

I talk about... IT . The movie, that is.

I guess I had to review a Christmas movie at some point... You might be surprised to hear this but I actually have nothing against the first two Home Alone movies: they're charming, harmless, simple little Christmassy flicks and overall fun kids' movies. I loved them back in the day and I still find them somewhat enjoyable, albeit in a mostly nostalgic, soppy way. This sequel is often accused of being a retread of the first film and, frankly, it is but it does enough things differently that it remains completely watchable and doesn't feel too heavy-handed. Macaulay Culkin's Kevin is unsurprisingly once again left to his own devices after taking the wrong plane following a misunderstanding at the airport. He is not left "home alone" this time as much as he his left... alone. He arrives in New York while his family enjoys a disappointingly rainy Christmas in Miami and, instead of freaking out like most kids would in this situation, he decides to start sp