With all the recent movies being made out of video games, it’s refreshingly retro to see one based on a board game. Admittedly, the source is not a “real” game – it’s no Battleship or Clue – but a ...

The "Jumanji" franchise has figured out a way to carry on its legacy while also expanding on the mythology for more movies. Decades ago, when audiences watched the first "Jumanji" movie, very few ...

"Zathura" — is it another adventure-filled, soon-to-be classic book by Chris Van Allsburg? Maybe. Is it another blockbuster film? Not likely. Perhaps actor-director Jon Favreau ("Swingers") was hoping ...

“Zathura” is just original enough for me to twist David Spade’s words: I liked it better than the first time I saw it, when it was named “Jumanji.”The similarities between the two movies are ...

What makes a good kids movie? Today’s kids are more sophisticated and much wiser to the ways of the world than the kids were in my day. Still, give the kids an interesting story (with kids as the ...

You know how when you open an old board game and there’s that one piece missing and it keeps you from playing, or you can still play but it’s just not as much fun as it should be? “Zathura: A Space ...

There have been a few movies in my life that I felt decidedly lukewarm about on first viewing, only to find years later that the film seemed pitch-perfect for what it was trying to do. “Zathura” fits ...

Did board-game sales plummet after the terrors of “Jumanji”? It’s hard to imagine any kid rolling the dice for “Monopoly” after the unrelenting brutality of marauding elephants and screeching monkeys ...

Zathura is a brief and generic action game that does nothing to distinguish itself from the glut of similar--and cheaper--games on the market. Zathura is a third-person action adventure game based on ...