The London Film Festival is not just about feature films: the festival also presents a selection of short films, which are grouped into different programmes according to theme. This year’s themes have included resilient women (the ‘Pretty Girls Make Graves’ programme), tense situations (‘Under Pressure’), and growing up in the suburbs (‘We’re the Kids from [...]
Glenn Shadix, best known for his role as Otho, the eccentric, effeminate interior designer in Tim Burton’s gothic ghost picture “Beetlejuice” (1998), died Tuesday morning following a fall at his Birmingham, Al condo, a family member told The Birmingham News. Shadix was a respected and prolific character actor having appeared in more than 70 films [...]
Dear Mr. Burton: What happened to you? You used to be so creative, have such imagination. You were strange, unknowable but always managed to imbue your films with such heart and feeling. From “Ed Wood” to “Edward Scissorhands” to “Beetlejuice” your films have always entertained and inspired us. But when you undertook to usurp the [...]
This is a tipping point movie. Through some pretty good work on some pretty good films, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp were able to build a deep reservoir of goodwill that saw them through some less-than-spectacular collaborations. But this film is more than a misfire. Here they’ve crossed a line into a bizarre (not in [...]
Mia Wasikowska, the untested star of Tim Burton’s much anticipated romp of whimsy, “Alice in Wonderland,” may be headed for Hollywood stardom. Burton’s picture hasn’t yet been released which means that the Australian Wasikowska is still an unproven property. Though such things have never scared away visionary director, Gus Van Sant, who’s actively pursuing the [...]
Tim Burton, the eccentric, macabre-loving director behind visually unique films like “Edward Scissorhands,” “Batman” and “Sweeney Todd” will be the subject of a major exhibit at Gotham’s Museum of Modern Art beginning Nov. 22 and running through April 26, reports Variety. The pub goes on to report, “…The show will include more than 700 pieces: [...]
“Fighting,” the hilariously obvious title of the recently released Channing Tatum film got us thinking about other films with a remarkable lack of creativity when it comes to the most important aspect of public recognition. #5. Fighting Ok, so I understand that fighting is pretty much the only thing that happens in this movie, along [...]
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