Tag: Tim Burton
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Not Quite “Twice As Nice” As the Original (Mainly Because of a Tonal Shift From Bona Fide Weird to Corporate Weird), But Good Enough
In 1988, the movie releases of the day were something of a mixed bag. From titles like Killer Klowns from Outer Space to Who Framed [Read More…]
Doja Cat’s “Demons” Video Is the Scariest Thing Christina Ricci Has Ever Starred In
As one of pop culture’s main “Queens of Spook,” Christina Ricci’s presence in anything haunted, eerie, ghostly or generally “demonic” is usually a no-brainer (this [Read More…]
Pee-wee’s Big Capitulation: As “Weird” As Pee-wee Was, He Was Still A Material Boy of the 80s
Perhaps it’s difficult to imagine a world in which “weird” isn’t a sellable commodity. It certainly wasn’t an effortless sell in the Reagan 80s. Not [Read More…]
When Legacies Are Slightly Obfuscated by White Girls Dancing: Harry Belafonte and Beetlejuice
In the wake of Harry Belafonte’s death on April 25th, there’s no doubt that an embarrassing number of people likely had to be reminded of [Read More…]
With A Callback to Addams Family Values, Wednesday Prompts Thanksgiving Revelers to Remember That It’s Still “Pilgrim World”
Being that Wednesday has arrived to Netflix just in time to capture the “Thanksgiving spirit,” it’s clearly no coincidence that, in episode three of the [Read More…]
An Alternate Reality in the Edward Scissorhands Timeline Provides A Fan Fiction Field Day
Surely, we all remember that at the beginning of Tim Burton’s 1990 classic, Edward Scissorhands, Winona Ryder’s character, Kim Boggs, was a grandmother. Telling the [Read More…]
Megan Thee Stallion Puts Lewis Carroll and Tim Burton in a Cocktail Shaker for “Don’t Stop”
Seemingly not one to ever stop–even after getting shot–Megan Thee Stallion has decided also not to lose the momentum of her collaboration with Cardi B [Read More…]
Tim Burton Makes Dumbo His Own While Also Emphasizing the Original Message That “Normals” Lack Vision
Dumbo has been accused of being made by Disney for a fast buck, a way to further profits via the barrage of CGI remakes that [Read More…]
In Common Parlance, Tim Burton Returns to Peculiar Form With Miss Peregrine
“Ever felt like nothing you do matters?” For Jake Portman (Asa Butterfield), this question is one that weighs heavily as he spends his days in [Read More…]
The Harmonious Melding of the Styles of Margaret Keane, Tim Burton & Lana Del Rey in Big Eyes
While Natalie Portman as Alice Ayres/Jane Jones in Closer may have said, “Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes [Read More…]
