Tag: Tim Burton

This Town Needs an Enema Batman ‘89 is a movie caught between expectations of camp and genre maturity. It’s empty entertainment, a bizarre if heavenly beautiful studio feature unsure …

Big Eyes is held together by Big Performances As an eclectic investigation of outmoded gender roles, Big Eyes becomes a movie of social growth. Margaret Keane’s turn as an …

A whimsical remake of the beloved children’s tale from Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was a popular film for a certain generation …

Frankenweenie takes some challenging swings at the kids, asking them to handle heavy material between all of the laughs.

At its peak, Mars Attacks carries a sense of chaos on par with some of the classics of this little sub-genre like Gremlins

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 …

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, …

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. …

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 …

This is inventive and unique fantasy, a true modern fairy tale with that gothic edge only Tim Burton could provide