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Silver Linings Playbook leads the pack in 2013 Oscar nomination
10 Jan 2013
Lincoln, Amour and Les Miserables also nominated
The nominations for the 2013 Academy Awards have been announced, with Silver Linings Playbook, Lincoln and Amour leading the pack of those films who stand a chance of winning at the awards ceremony on Sunday 24 February. Silver Linings Playbook, a…
Frankenweenie
20 Sep 2012
Tim Burton’s latest is a triumphant black and white animation
The commodified pseudo-weirdness of Tim Burton has become a bit of a bugbear, even for those who once fell hard for his particular brand of whimsy. Wearying in its repetition of the same Goth-lite tropes, over-reliant on Johnny Depp’s cutesy bug-eyed…
Revisiting: Frankenweenie (1984)
19 Sep 2012
Tim Burton’s original Frankenstein tribute is lovingly constructed, despite its troubled past
It’s hard to know what Disney were thinking when they took on Tim Burton in 1979. Freshly graduated from CalArts (alongside future Pixar bods John Lasseter and Brad Bird, as well as The Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick), Burton had…
