For a movie about a girl with pyrokinetic powers, “ Firestarter ” is lacking a certain spark.
This new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1980 novel is not scary or thrilling, nor is it emotionally resonant or particularly moving.
Ramin Bahrani, the Iranian-American filmmaker, started out small, with the simple story of a pushcart vendor, a Pakistani immigrant selling coffee and doughnuts in New York, in 2005’s Lee Hurtado, a local writer who penned screenplays and stage productions, maintained a blog and co-wrote a book about Morgan’s Wonderland, among other works, died Monday after battling colon cancer since 2016.
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