Every now and then, we pause in awe of the people we've had the opportunity to spend time with. Doug Trumbull, John Kricfalusi, and Paul Verhoeven in ...
Tim Burton, a filmmaker known for his own brand of ghoulish cartoon characters, is taking on the world of wide-eyed artist, Margaret Keane, in a new m...
Since 1987's "Superman IV: The Quest For Peace," there have been four Spider-Mans ("Spider-Man," "Spider-Man 2," "Spider-Man 3" and "The Amazing Spide...
Tim Burton has made three stop-motion animation feature films: "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "Corpse Bride" and 2012's "Frankenweenie." The format...
At heart, Frankenweenie is a classic tale about a boy and his dog. Of course, given the title, you would be right to suspect there's a little more at stake here than that.
Tim Burton is never one to shy away from the bizarre and unexpected. While he has been able to push many boundaries, sometimes getting the studio on b...
For the better part of 30 years now, Hollywood has been harboring a secret. Something that threatens the prevailing public perception of one of the town's more talented filmmakers.
Whether the expansion to feature length and the addition of 3D goggles justify the nostalgia trip is something that Cinefantastique Online's Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and I discuss at length in this week's review.
Charlie Tahan wasn't like most preschoolers. The 14-year-old star of "Frankenweenie" was into Monty Python and Tim Burton when he was 3, a far cry fro...
I'm not one who worships at the altar of Tim Burton, probably disliking his films as often as I am moved by them. But I fell hard for Frankenweenie, an extrapolation of a short film Burton made almost 30 years ago.
-- Tim Burton reminds us of why we love Tim Burton with "Frankenweenie," a feature-length version of the 1984 short that revealed early glimmers of t...
Tim Burton's unique vision probably wasn't the easiest sell when he first hit the scene. But the newest episode of the web series "Rejected Pitches" p...
My kids love going to the movies -- what kid doesn't? -- and they love seeing the previews for what's coming soon. But when the kids are so scared of...
"The superheroes we have today are modern American folklore," Michael Uslan told me, " it's contemporary mythology. The ancient gods of Greece, Rome and Egypt still exist only today they wear spandex and capes.
SAN DIEGO -- Back in the day, Tim Burton remembers critics finding his take on Batman rather gloomy.
Burton's Dark Knight looked as though he was hav...
It's hard to say goodbye to a childhood pet, so we can understand why Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan), the protagonist at the center of Tim Burton...
As we approach a heated presidential election, there's been a lot of talk about what makes a great president. It turns out that Abraham Lincoln had it...
As we approach a heated presidential election, there's been a lot of talk about what makes a great president. It turns out that Abraham Lincoln, the 1...
I had entered the theater with miniscule prior knowledge of the film, but departed dazed and in a mood of uplifting wonder, thanks to another aesthetic creation of director Tim Burton.
Though you may know him from his more recent roles from The Lord of the Rings series or the Star Wars prequels, Sir Christopher Lee has been one of the most reliable forces on film and television screens around the world for more than sixty years and running.