Littler ones might also be tickled by Black's slapstick-y, Muppet-like antics. For everyone else, though, "Goosebumps" promises to be something of a slog, benefitting from a fun tone reminiscent ...

“Goosebumps,” a movie roughly based on the popular “Goosebumps” children’s books by R.L. Stine, wastes its source material. Since 1992, Stine’s horror-comedy books have sold more than ...

Fantastic news, ’90s bookworms! 2016 will shower us with oodles of nostalgia with the March 23rd release of the Goosebumps movie from Sony Pictures, starring Jack Black. My first thought when I ...

Black starred as Stine in 2015's 'Goosebumps' and its 2018 sequel 'Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween' R.L. Stine Says Jack Black 'Keeps in Touch' After Playing Author in “Goosebumps ”Movies: 'He ...

Mr. Movie is Gary Wolcott, the Tri-City Herald’s longtime film critic, and he reviews 2018’s ‘Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween,’ featuring, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jack Black, and Madison Iseman.

T he Goosebumps Books by R.L. Stine are a ubiquitous series of playful middle-grade horror novels that have sold over 400 million copies worldwide. Since the series launched in 1992, it has also ...

Children’s horror author R.L. Stine has sold 400 million books — a fact dutifully recounted in “Goosebumps,” the new comedy-adventure named after Stine’s 200-odd novella franchise.

Also read: Jack Black in Negotiations to Star in ‘Goosebumps’ Movie for Sony, Scholastic Media (Exclusive) Black will play Mr. Shivers, a Stine-like author whose scary characters literally ...

The problem with R.L. Stine's "Goosebumps" series of kid-horror books isn't that they are overly gruesome gateways to the occult, as certain hysterical school librarians shrieked upon banning them ...