Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Asa Butterfield was just thirteen when Martin Scorsese cast him as the star of 2011’s Hugo. Now nineteen, the lanky Brit teams with another legendary filmmaker, Tim Burton, in the elaborate, time-traveling 3-D fantasy Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. A kind of Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz, Butterfield’s Jake journeys from his Florida home to England and then back in time to 1943 when England was being buzz bombed by the Nazis and where he encounters Eva Green’s Miss Peregrine, a protective “scary Poppins” who can transform into a flying falcon and guard her troupe of “peculiars,” children with strange abilities.

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