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Tim Burton

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Dark Shadows Has Problems

    Naturally, 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 >>

  • Film

    May 9, 2012

    Vampires, All of Them: On Dark Shadows and God Bless America

    Naturally, 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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    Johnny Depp In Dark Shadows: Looking Good?

    Johnny 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, 2011

    My Cutest Look Ever, Maybe?

    ​You 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

    The New Kardashians?

    ​ 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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Tim Burton Wants You to Help Him Write a Short Story, and No, He Won't Pay You

    via Burtonstory.com​Tim 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, 2010

    STEAMPUNK CIRCUS

    Cirque du Soleil's worst nightmare

  • Voice Choices

    May 11, 2010

    GIVE AND TAKE

    You want more Tim Burton? Then help out.

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    I'm "Hollywood Kid"-ding

    ​Check 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, 2010

    Batman Returns

    ​Check 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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Who'll Star in Tim Burton's Addams Family Movie?

    ​The 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 16, 2010

    FIGHT CLUB

    We're not in Wonderland anymore

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2010

    The Brain from Planet Arous

    We're not in Wonderland anymore

  • Film

    March 2, 2010

    Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

    Not nearly curiouser and curiouser enough

  • Voice Choices

    January 5, 2010

    Pee-wee's Big Adventure

    Not nearly curiouser and curiouser enough

  • Voice Choices

    December 22, 2009

    Edward Scissorhands

    Not nearly curiouser and curiouser enough

  • Voice Choices

    November 24, 2009

    Sweeney Todd

    Not nearly curiouser and curiouser enough

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2009

    Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

    T-shirt design from jinx.com​Did you maybe hear that the new Twilight movie is out?

  • Film

    November 17, 2009

    MOMA Brings Tim Burton's Outsider Art In

    T-shirt design from jinx.com​Did you maybe hear that the new Twilight movie is out?

  • Voice Choices

    November 17, 2009

    Mars Attacks!

    T-shirt design from jinx.com​Did you maybe hear that the new Twilight movie is out?

  • Voice Choices

    November 17, 2009

    Pee-wee's Big Adventure

    T-shirt design from jinx.com​Did you maybe hear that the new Twilight movie is out?

  • Voice Choices

    November 10, 2009

    BURTON’S BIG ADVENTURE

    Tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    This Week in the Voice

    ​What 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, 2009

    SHEAR THING

    Edward Scissorhands closes the "Movies With a View" series

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Burton Preps for MOMA Show with Screening of Little-Seen Hansel and Gretel

    ​ 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, 2009

    Diluted Nostalgia Marks Alien Trespass

    ​ 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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 12, 2008

    GOLDEN TICKET

    If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

  • Theater

    June 17, 2008

    The Film Festival: A Theater Festival Explores the Celluloid Boundary

    Stage and screen wrestle it out at the Brick's new fest

  • Film

    May 6, 2008

    The Tracey Fragments: Snark Attacks

    Ellen Page makes this stuff work

  • Film

    February 26, 2008

    Penelope

    Not a bad lie to buy

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2008
  • Film

    December 11, 2007

    Prime Cut

    Tim Burton makes Sweeney Todd his gory, grisly, bloodstained own

  • Columns

    November 27, 2007

    Violence Is Golden

    And stunning, where Bardem and the Coens are concerned. Plus other dark visions, and peaceful chats with Mamet and Lauper.

  • Art

    January 9, 2007

    Heartbreak of Darkness

    And stunning, where Bardem and the Coens are concerned. Plus other dark visions, and peaceful chats with Mamet and Lauper.

  • Screens

    February 21, 2006

    Rack Focus

    And stunning, where Bardem and the Coens are concerned. Plus other dark visions, and peaceful chats with Mamet and Lauper.

  • Screens

    January 24, 2006

    A Black-Velvet Comedy for Modern Tweens

    And stunning, where Bardem and the Coens are concerned. Plus other dark visions, and peaceful chats with Mamet and Lauper.

  • Columns

    September 20, 2005

    NY Mirror

    And stunning, where Bardem and the Coens are concerned. Plus other dark visions, and peaceful chats with Mamet and Lauper.

  • Columns

    September 13, 2005

    NY Mirror

    And stunning, where Bardem and the Coens are concerned. Plus other dark visions, and peaceful chats with Mamet and Lauper.

  • Film

    September 6, 2005

    Death Becomes Her

    Skeleton glee: Burton taps the pop-gothic semi-culture for a merrily macabre puppet folktale

  • Film

    July 5, 2005

    Stranger With Candy

    A decent Factory: Tim Burton's enjoyable Roald Dahl redux delves into Wonka weirdness

  • NYC Life

    May 4, 2004

    Film

    A decent Factory: Tim Burton's enjoyable Roald Dahl redux delves into Wonka weirdness

  • Film

    April 13, 2004

    No Props: Movie-Mad Cautionary Tale Proves Mild at Heart

    A decent Factory: Tim Burton's enjoyable Roald Dahl redux delves into Wonka weirdness

  • Film

    December 9, 2003

    Father Knows Less

    An almost grown-up Tim Burton buys a pack of Spielbergian lies—hook, line, and stinker

  • Columns

    December 11, 2001

    NY Mirror

    An almost grown-up Tim Burton buys a pack of Spielbergian lies—hook, line, and stinker

  • Film

    July 31, 2001

    Devolution of the Species

    An almost grown-up Tim Burton buys a pack of Spielbergian lies—hook, line, and stinker

  • Film

    July 24, 2001

    Shock the Monkey

    Gorillas in Our Midst

  • Film

    August 1, 2000

    The Outer Limits

    Gorillas in Our Midst

  • Long Island Voice

    November 30, 1999

    Guys and Dolls

    Gorillas in Our Midst

  • Long Island Voice

    November 30, 1999

    Head or Tales

    Gorillas in Our Midst

  • Film

    November 23, 1999

    Heads or Tails

    Gorillas in Our Midst

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