News Summary

• "Wildwood" is so visually astonishing, so textured and vivacious, that it makes the old fantasy clichés in its script feel new again.
• Travis Knight's new stop-motion fantasy epic "Wildwood," based on the novel by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, is one of the most dazzling films I have seen in a long time.
• The attention to Portland is impeccable, with Prue riding her bike past Powell's Books and buying herself one of those Cap'n Crunch donuts from Voodoo Donuts.