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In Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, those depicted as being fully themselves tend to convene or live outside, amid the vividly rendered trees, mushrooms, and wild things.
America (and the world) has spoken: The less-than-mediocre Alice in Wonderland is a hit. Allow me to disagree. Tim Burton is Exhibit A for my unified theory of movies.
It's a genre light week with no new horror, fantasy, or science fiction titles released in cinemas, so we're shining a little much-deserved light on some overlooked and/or under-rated genre titles.
This health care thing has driven people crazier than Johnny Depp in a Max Fleischer cartoon on acid. Pro or con, your rhetoric better be cranked up t...
What makes this story timeless? While some are convinced Carroll's story was political, the deeper dimension has to do with identity crisis, something our ancestors faced before each developmental leap.
Dan Persons, Steve Biodrowski, and Lawrence French follow Tim Burton down the rabbit hole, analyzing his live-action redo of the Disney animated class...
The problem with Tim Burton's Alice isn't that we already know the story, the problem is that it feels curiously lifeless.
Every now and then there's a casting choice that seems predestined, a true chicken/egg situation. A role it's impossible to believe wasn't written wit...
Make no mistake, Alice in Wonderland is easily Tim Burton's worst film since Planet of the Apes, and its failures bring into question just what kind of filmmaker he wants to be in the next phase of his career.
Wonderland has always been an incredibly silly place and I was worried that when it was married to Tim Burton's style it would be a little too much, but it never was.
If you have some extra cash to throw down the rabbit hole, we love Sue Wong's Alice-inspired pink and black lace cocktail dress - but we still can't get past spending almost $400 on a Disney-themed frock.
Tim Burton and screenwriter Linda Woolverton have taken the classic story and turned it into a modern action-fantasy film -- minus the humor of Carroll, or the absurdity or the heart.
The story told in this book is a simple one. An alien child. A helpful teacher. A highly original student film. An apprenticeship at Disney. And then an unbroken series of successful films.
Johnny Depp, Chrissy Hynde, Shane McGowan, Nick Cave, and Glen Matlock were among the artists who recorded this awesome version of Screamin' Jay Hawk...
What if we all returned to a magical time in our childhoods? Would we discover our true selves? As the subway rumbled past my old neighborhood, I traveled back to when I first performed at the infamous disco club Studio 54--at age eight.
The flick that got Leonardo DiCaprio his first Oscar nomination follows Johnny Depp as a guy stuck in small-town Iowa, dealing with his family and dre...
