It is these visual effects that steal the film, so much so that Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is boring by comparison

Less than 15 minutes into 9, the adventure starts. These robotic puppets, their names are just the numbers 1 through 9, set off on a quest to take down a machine-creating super-computer not named SkyNet. The issue is 9 moves too quickly. There is no investment with these characters. When one of them suggests turning [...]

In all the years of holiday films, one would think every concept has been explored. Family dysfunction, romance, John Candy and Steve Martin, BB guns, ghosts of Christmas past, and George Bailey takes care of everything… or so you would think. Leave it to Tim Burton to take the Christmas holiday and do something with [...]

A movie that is entirely from the “and now for something completely different” category, 1988’s Beetlejuice is bizarre even by Tim Burton standards. It’s also original, funny, and dark. While it may seem to be the norm from Burton after Corpse Bride and Nightmare Before Christmas, in ’88 there was nothing even close to the [...]

Remakes are exceptionally tricky when the source material is highly regarded. For Planet of the Apes the deep social and general societal issues along with the intriguing look at science made the film the classic it is. Tim Burton’s massively budgeted update only contains brief moments of this brilliance, crafting a decent chase film out [...]