‘Arrival Calendar’ Review: An Interval of Tricks and Treats

Writer-director Patrick Ridremont’s “The Advent Calendar” has all kinds of unpleasant pleasures behind its doors. This fiery dream of a movie packs love potions, evil stepmothers, benevolent demons, voodoo, sex, alternate realities and more into 104 minutes. The fantastic props and effects are whimsical and dizzying, and strangely beautiful in their euphoria, as they move …