View image Johnny Depp as Tim Burton and Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. "[Director Tim Burton] saw the picture as an homage to old Universal horror flicks ('Frankenstein,' 'The Black Cat'), creepy silent-film melodramas (any number of Lon Chaney spine-tinglers), and…
From Andy Ihnatko, Boston, MA:
No filmmaker has more daringly and relentlessly explored what it means to be human than David Cronenberg. Two weeks ago, critic Robert Horton and I discussed Cronenberg's work as part of Robert's Magic Lantern Series at the Frye Art Museum…
No filmmaker has more daringly and relentlessly explored what it means to be human than David Cronenberg.
Q: In response to the Answer Man item about the significance of the horses in the field of "Michael Clayton," the reason Clayton stopped at the horses and the tree was because this was a significant image in the red…
Both images above from the opening credits of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984), newly released on Criterion DVD. Todo el trabajo y ningún juego hacen Jim un muchacho embotado. Todo el trabajo y ningún juego hacen Jim un muchacho…
Don't look now, little girl, but the children of rage (mummy's rage) are about to get you. Los Dias de los Muertos begin today, October 31 (aka "Halloween day") through November 2 (aka All Souls Day -- and Tara Mulan…
View image Unimaginable horror. Now this is how to make a list. Richard Corliss writes for Time magazine, a mainstream publication, but that doesn't prevent him from slipping in those inspired, idiosyncratic Corli-cues™ of his. (I just made up that…
View image Richard Harris as one version of Dumbledore, from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." First, let's get the quote right. When asked if the "Harry Potter" series character, Prof. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, a proponent of love…
From Joe Blevins, Arlington Heights, IL:
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