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 ...

"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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

Fortunately or unfortunately for me, I grew up with a sister and not a brother. Because she was my younger sister, I grew up in that all-knowing, all-powerful role of older sibling that was never ...

Its unwieldy title notwithstanding, "Zathura: A Space Adventure" is arguably the best adaptation of a Chris Van Allsburg book to date. A visually resplendent adventure about two brothers and an ...

These are the voyages of the starship Zathura. Its one-game mission: To teach feuding brothers Walter and Danny to get along with each other. Does it boldly go where no movie’s gone before? No. In ...

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 ...

2K Games announced today that film tie-in game Zathura: A Space Adventure is now shipping to North American retailers for Xbox and PlayStation 2. Developed by High Voltage Software, Zathura is based ...

Children’s book author Chris Van Allsburg has cornered the market on kids’ games gone horribly awry. In “Jumanji,” a few bad rolls of the dice and suddenly a New England town is overrun by jungle ...

With Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle becoming a massive hit, it is easy to forget that 12 years ago there was another attempt to follow up 1995’s Jumanji. Co-written by David Koepp, directed by a ...