Blogs
January 22, 2013I really admired Les Miserables. No, it's not perfect--there are too many crying, singing closeups--but I still found it astonishingly done, the first great movie musical since Chicago.
But as you know, it's been dividing people more than anything since Coke Zero.
Here's what someone on the All Th ... More >>
Film
October 3, 2012The Tim Burton you liked is back
Voice Choices
July 25, 2012Help Pee-wee find his bike
Blogs
May 29, 2012French artist Alexandre Dubosc uses food to build beautiful zoetropes, whirling cylinders that tell a story on loop, like an old-fashioned gif. His latest piece, inspired by Tim Burton, is a whimsical chocolate cake with teeth, bones, and googly eyes.
Voice Choices
May 23, 2012The ship of horrors sails again
Voice Choices
May 23, 2012Sweden's Cirkus Cirkör returns to BAM
Blogs
May 11, 2012Naturally, Tim Burton has brought an extremely vivid look to his adaptation of Dark Shadows, based on the '70s soap opera about a vampire who's only marginally weirder than the people around him.
The film also has a terrific soundtrack featuring period pieces by T. Rex, the Carpenters, and other od ... More >>
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May 9, 2012Blogs
January 30, 2012Johnny Depp still hasn't seen The Tourist and neither has anyone else, but that's long been demoted to a footnote in his otherwise jazzy career.
The chameleon-like voice of Rango has just applied his scissorhands to the part of Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows, the Tim Burton-directed re-creation o ... More >>
Blogs
August 1, 2011You have to admit it's pretty fetching.
I sported it during the last batch of Fashion Week party mania, and evidence of it is still surfacing as if by fabric trail.
Once your pupils stop pulsing, you have to admit this ensem-bleh makes me look very Tim Burton meets Elsa Schiaparelli on the ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Check out my new best friends, sisters Lorraine and Sabina Belkin.
They're glammed-up go-getters who just opened Duo Restaurant and Lounge in the growing NoMad area, conveniently located near my house.
And the place has some facinating touches, like menus that magically light up when you o ... More >>
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November 22, 2010via Burtonstory.comTim Burton, president-elect of weird, is writing a short story on Twitter, and he wants you to help. Normally we're against writing for free (at least on principle), but it's Tim Burton, which means the exception becomes the rule. Plus, we have a certain kinship with Stainb ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 27, 2010Cirque du Soleil's worst nightmare
Voice Choices
May 11, 2010You want more Tim Burton? Then help out.
Blogs
March 26, 2010Check out this super fun video of me riffing on my favorite movie stars for movieline.com.
I gab about everything from Nick Worthington's accent as the son of Zeus to Tim Burton's casting challenges as the father of weird cartoons.
They call me the "Hollywood kid" and they plug the Voice. A ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 24, 2010Blogs
March 19, 2010The combination of feverishly imaginative arrested child Tim Burton and the wry cartoons of Charles Addams are such a perfect fit it's a wonder it took so long for Burton to direct a 3-D stop-action animated movie of The Addams Family (not to be confused with the musical version currently on ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 9, 2010Film
March 2, 2010Not nearly curiouser and curiouser enough
Voice Choices
January 5, 2010Voice Choices
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November 24, 2009Film
November 17, 2009Voice Choices
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November 10, 2009Tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya
Blogs
October 13, 2009What may we expect of a third Mike Bloomberg term? Few people pay closer attention to city politics than Wayne Barrett, so he's your man for "A Bloomberg Score Card: The Mayor's Hits and Misses." He still thinks "the self-serving reversal of term limits was the greatest abuse of power I have ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 25, 2009Edward Scissorhands closes the "Movies With a View" series
Blogs
July 29, 2009
Tim Burton (right) receives the plaudits of MOMA assistant curator Ron Magliozzi.
Candy-striped bondage gear, sagging walls spurting Technicolor blood, a menacing gingerbread man crying for his death. And finally, an evil (and, ostensibly, drag-queen) witch incinerated to thick, graphic sm ... More >>
Film
April 1, 2009Voice Choices
August 12, 2008If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
Film
May 6, 2008Ellen Page makes this stuff work
Film
December 11, 2007Tim Burton makes Sweeney Todd
his gory, grisly, bloodstained own
Columns
November 27, 2007And stunning, where Bardem and the Coens are concerned. Plus other dark visions, and peaceful chats with Mamet and Lauper.
Screens
February 21, 2006Screens
January 24, 2006Columns
September 20, 2005Columns
September 13, 2005Film
September 6, 2005Skeleton glee: Burton taps the pop-gothic semi-culture for a merrily macabre puppet folktale
Film
July 5, 2005A decent Factory: Tim Burton's enjoyable Roald Dahl redux delves into Wonka weirdness
NYC Life
May 4, 2004Film
April 13, 2004Film
December 9, 2003An almost grown-up Tim Burton buys a pack of Spielbergian lies—hook, line, and stinker
Columns
December 11, 2001Film
July 31, 2001Film
July 24, 2001Film
August 1, 2000Long Island Voice
November 30, 1999Long Island Voice
November 30, 1999Film
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