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October Horrors 2020 – Sleepy Hollow (1999)

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Sleepy Hollow, 1999. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien and Christopher Walken. SYNOPSIS: In the year 1799, New York police constable Ichabod Crane is sent to the small village of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a spate of grisly decapitations all seemingly committed by the supernatural […]

October Horrors 2020 – Beetlejuice (1988)

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Beetlejuice, 1988. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones and Michael Keaton. SYNOPSIS: After dying in a car accident, Adam and Barbara are horrified by the new obnoxious residents moving into their former home. Eager to rid their house of the new tenants, Adam and Barbara are […]

Dwayne Johnson was considered for Willy Wonka in Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Dwayne Johnson has revealed that he was once considered by Tim Burton to play Willy Wonka in his adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka is a beloved character, brought to life so memorably by Gene Wilder in 1971s Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. Based on the Roald Dahl children’s book, the […]

Beetlejuice 4K Ultra HD release coming later this year

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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced Tim Burton‘s Beetlejuice is scheduled for a 4K Ultra HD release on 31st August 2020 in the UK and 1st September 2020 in the US. SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Amazon US or Amazon UK Beetlejuice follows a deceased couple that begins haunting their former home with the help of a devious poltergeist named […]

Six Things You Might Not Know About Tim Burton’s Batman

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Today marks the 31st anniversary of Tim Burton’s Batman (or Batman ’89 as it’s known nowadays). It was a movie that changed the landscape of comic book movies, broke the mould that came before it and wrote the blueprint for how to market a summer blockbuster. To celebrate this occasion (and the news that Michael […]

The Batman director on the challenge of following Nolan and Burton’s great Batman films

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Matt Reeves, the director of The Batman, has praised the Christopher Nolan and Tim Burton Batman films and discussed how it feels to follow after them. Batman has a mixed history when it comes to quality movies but when it works, masterpieces tend to appear. Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy and Tim Burton’s two features […]

Composer Danny Elfman isn’t aware of the current status of Beetlejuice 2, admits he is “always the last one to hear”

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Composer Danny Elfman has revealed he isn’t aware of the current status of Beetlejuice 2 but admits that this doesn’t mean the project isn’t in development as he is “always the last one to hear.” “No, you know, oddly, he has not mentioned it to me. The last… a year ago, I saw Michael Keaton, and […]

The Ultimate Batman Film

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On Batman Day, Tom Jolliffe delves back through the Caped Crusader’s films and TV so far to pick the best of the best in the ultimate Batman film… Lets say you’re putting together a Batman film, and you’ve got to piece together a cast and crew of the best from the film and TV incarnations […]

Batman ’89: The most influential film of the last 30 years

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Anghus Houvouras on Tim Burton’s Batman: The most influential film of the last 30 years…. The summer of 1989 was brimming with blockbusters. A number of high profile sequels were set to light up the box office. Massive franchises like Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, and Lethal Weapon were debuting new installments guaranteed to rake in fat […]

The Ridiculous Notion That Batman Never Kills

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Anghus Houvouras on Batman and the “no kill” policy… At this point in my career, I’ve spent a few hundred thousand words devoted to analyzing movies and television and the fevered hyperbole of fandom that encompasses it. Truth be told, I find myself far more fascinated by the pop culture zeitgeist and fandom that surrounds […]