Dark Shadows

Dissecting Tim Burton!

Posted 13 years ago

DIRECTOR TIM BURTON! Tim Burton has had a pretty checkered career hasn't he. After becoming one of the most popular and sought after filmmakers in the late 80s and early 90s, he's had a pretty hit or miss subsequent 20...

Movie Jail: This week’s defendant is…Johnny Depp!

Posted 13 years ago

This is Movie Jail, a unique maximum security prison that houses some of the worst writers, directors, actors and producers from Hollywood and beyond. Their crimes? The offenses vary from convict to convict but most of these inmates have contributed...

The F*cking Black Sheep: Dark Shadows (2012)

Posted 13 years ago

THE BLACK SHEEP is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATH. We're hoping this column will...

Check out Tim Burton’s new music video for The Killers’ Here With Me

Posted 14 years ago

I miss the old Tim Burton. You remember him? The guy who brought us EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, MARS ATTACKS, ED WOOD, and BATMAN? Yeah, he has disappeared in recent years in favor of this Disney-fied version of himself. Sure, he has...

C’mon Hollywood: Has Tim Burton lost his touch or have we lost touch with Tim Burton?

Posted 14 years ago

This past weekend I caught Tim Burton’s FRANKENWEENIE and while sitting there, soaking the film in, I felt an air of familiarity, as if there would be no surprises and a bittersweet, oddly happy ending. Yet, as the film came...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: Dark Shadows, Cinderella, Iron Sky, Red Lights…

Posted 14 years ago

This week: After ‘Dark Shadows,’ Burton and Depp may need to start seeing other people. Also: ‘Universal Classic Monsters’ shows you where it all began; ‘Iron Sky’ wants this year’s so-bad-it’s-good award; and ‘Pet Sematary’ won’t stay dead. ► The...

Review: Dark Shadows

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: After spurning the affections of his chambermaid/witch- Angelique (Eva Green), the aristocratic Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) is transformed into a vampire, and buried in a casket. Two hundred years later, in the year 1972, he’s awakened- and returns to...

New featurette for Dark Shadows digs up the character details

Posted 14 years ago

For those looking to get a better feeling for how Tim Burton’s DARK SHADOWS will play out, this new featurette lays things out quite nicely.  I doubt that the film is “spoiler-rich” so you need not worry about any major...

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton explain vampire history in this Dark Shadows featurette

Posted 14 years ago

If they offered a college course called “Vampire History 101” and it was taught by Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, I would take that class in a heartbeat. But, for now we will have to make due with this featurette...

Want to hear Danny Elfman’s score for Dark Shadows?

Posted 14 years ago

Do you enjoy movie scores? Do you enjoy Danny Elfman? If so, then you should listen to the score for DARK SHADOWS. The score definitely has Elfman’s signature all over it. It’s less lighthearted then I thought it would be....