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Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (trailer)

by Katharine Wray

[2.Nov.09] :. Tim Burton’s highly anticipated interpretation of the Lewis Carrol/Disney classic promises to deliver with a clever mix of live action and computer animation. Disney’s animated classic...

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Alice in Wonderland dir. Tim Burton (new film / trailer)

by Eleanore Catolico

[8.Oct.09] :. Alice in Wonderland will be out early next year March 5, 2010. Tim Burton here forgoes a direct remake of the animated film, instead reinterpreting it as something of a sequel to the original...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[2.Apr.08] :. Burton indulges in meticulously designed, deliberately artificial sets, cinematography that makes the world monochromatic, protagonists with pale skin and sunken eyes – but it's that passion coursing beneath the surface that makes this film feel more alive than anything he's done in years.

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Alan Rickman can be a saint, but sometimes evil becomes him

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[4.Jan.08] :. Alan Rickman isn’t a bad guy. He just often plays one. Bad guys like Gruber in “Die Hard,” Marston in “Quigly Down Under” and the Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin...

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Tim Burton knew he was cut out to direct `Sweeney Todd’

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[18.Dec.07] :. You’d think you could get a rise out of Tim Burton by pigeon-holing the guy, telling him that the blood-spattered Stephen Sondheim musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Two-Disc Deluxe Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Nov.05] :. Tim Burton's movie is mostly perky, slightly edgy, and dully episodic.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jul.05] :. This being a Tim Burton film, the celebration of childish pleasures is not simply joyous, but tweaked.

Big Fish (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Apr.04] :. Edward's persistent self-inflation frustrates Will, just as its contradictions appeal to Burton.

Big Fish (2003)

by Jesse Hassenger

[8.Jan.04] :. Edward is less obviously an outsider than Burton's other Edwards (Scissorhands and Wood), but equally filled with a winning sense of wonder.

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

When the Burgomaster (played by still great Horror film legend Christopher Lee) sends Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) to Sleepy Hollow, you may suspect that Ichabod is being sent to the land of Hammer Horror, or perhaps the woods of Horror Movies Past.

Planet of the Apes (2001)

by Josh Jones

As Tim Burton's new version of 'Planet of the Apes' demonstrates in many ways, some subtle, some not so, the recycling of cultural milestones is not simply a marketing device, but a way to rejuvenate cultural mythology, be it science fiction or religious fable.

Planet of the Apes (2001)

by Ben Varkentine

Tim Burton should never have been given this assignment. There are no humans in his films, which can impress, but never move us.