FIRESTARTER 15
★★★☆☆ OUT NOW CINEMAS
Keith Thomas follows his directorial (2019) with a solid version of Stephen King’s 1980 novel about a young girl (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) gifted/cursed with powers of pyrokinesis, who flees with her dad (Zac Efron) when a secret government agency seeks to harvest her powers for their own ends. This new ’ leans harder into the father/daughter dynamic than the previous Drew Barrymore-starring adap (1984). It also boasts a nifty keyboard-led score by Cody Carpenter and his famous dad John – who was fired from in 1982 when a little film called flopped.
