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Toast

If one were to rate the film Toast by culinary standards, it would score much the same as the subject himself—not Michelin-starred, but entertaining, straightforward and delicious....  read more

Salute Your Shorts: 2011 Oscar-nominated Animated Films

Most years the animated shorts category is both the audience’s preference and the only one of the categories that seems to really bring in great films. It’s hard to explain this disparity, except perhaps that because so many animated shorts are comedies they tend to lack the pretension of live-action and documentary shorts. They’re also frequently more stylistically ambitious than the other categories, which are frequently more conservative examples of their genres. I wouldn’t call the nominees examples of avant-garde cinema by any means, but they’re definitely a lot closer than what you’ll see pretty much anywhere else at the...  read more

The King's Speech Review

Portraying the stuttering Prince Albert, who would become King George VI of Britain, Firth maintains a constant aura of frustration. It's not the way that a non-stuttering actor stutters that makes him believable, but the pitch-perfect emotional resonance of gifted actor.   read more

Warner Bros. Announces Danny Elfman and Tim Burton Box Set

Tim Burton has certain people he likes to work with, you know, most all of the time....  read more

Great Expectations 2010: Tim Burton in Wonderland

Collectively, every contemporary film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland has been one long practice round for the inevitable Tim Burton version...  read more

Tim Burton Named 2010 Cannes Jury President

Master of many things twisted and weird, Tim Burton, has been selected as jury president for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Filmmakers at this year’s festival (scheduled to take place May 12-23), will have to impress the man responsible for movies like Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands. Good luck, folks!...  read more

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland Photos, Details Released

Take the childhood-favorite tale Alice in Wonderland. Add the twisted triumvirate of Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter to the movie re-imagination. Throw in a plotline that's tinged with a little dose of girl power. Then release some of the set photos online through USA Today way out in front of the release date of March 5, 2010. The result?...  read more

Hathaway and Bonham Carter join Burton's Alice

Fresh off the heels of a critically acclaimed performance in Rachel Getting Married, Anne Hathaway has nabbed a role in Tim Burton's next film, alongside Burton mainstay Johnny Depp. ...  read more

Terminator Salvation cast continues to evolve

There's a strange sort of morale over at the set of Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, scheduled for release in 2009. Helmed by director McG (of The O.C.- and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle-producing fame), the James Cameron-founded franchise features Christian Bale as hero John Connor, Australian actor Sam Worthington as a friend (or maybe foe) and rapper Common as a friend (we think). ...  read more