We will have our Tim Burton and Michael Keaton reunion, it seems, but it won’t be in a Beetlejuice sequel (or another Batman movie, which is too bad). According to Variety, Keaton’s in talks to star in Burton’s latest, the partially live-action Dumbo movie. If all goes well, the Birdman star will play the man who buys…
Eva Green might be teaming back up with her old pal Tim Burton, with Deadline reporting that the Dark Shadows and Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children star is in talks to appear in Burton’s live-action Dumbo movie. Burton’s film—the latest in a long line of Disney’s flesh and blood remakes, including the…
My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.
With more scripted television programs in production than ever before, it follows that there are now a wider range of opportunities for television actors. Looking back at the performances that caught The A.V. Club’s eyes in 2016 confirms that hypothesis: While some of our favorite character actors found new facets of…
The central setting of the new Tim Burton movie, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, is an abandoned orphanage, overgrown with vegetation and situated on the lonelier side of a small Welsh island. Except the building isn’t abandoned, not really. Behind its dilapidated walls, a makeshift family of superpowered…
Tim Burton may finally have his own superhero franchise—albeit without the spandex—with Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. Based on the book by Ransom Riggs, the film follows a newcomer (Asa Butterfield) joining a home for extraordinary youths with gifts that make them different from the outside world.…
Maybe now we know why Showtime has yet to renew Penny Dreadful for a fourth season. Before seeing how it all unfolded tonight, I had planned to speculate on the show’s chances of coming back. Although the network has a reputation for prolonging many a series past its creative prime, Penny Dreadful is an expensive show…
Nearly every episode of Penny Dreadful presents another opportunity to gush over Eva Green’s work as Vanessa Ives, and “Ebb Tide” is no exception. In doing so, however, we run the risk of overlooking some of the other fine performances by the regular cast. There’s no better time than now to show a little love for…
The Penny Dreadful regulars aren’t reunited quite yet, but they’re all present and accounted for in “No Beast So Fierce,” following two episodes that drilled down into the backstories of isolated characters. Considering how much time was devoted to laying out the particulars of Ethan’s dilemma last week, it’s a little…
At least once per season, John Logan and company get together and decide (with all due respect to the excellent ensemble cast), screw it: this week we’re doing The Eva Green Show. And who can blame them? They know what they have in Green as well as we do: a fearless actress who has no time for pedestrian concerns…
In keeping with the two previous episodes this season, “Good And Evil Braided Be” acts as a sort of anthology episode collecting the discrete adventures of each of the main characters. As the hour progresses, however, there are indications that these individual storylines may be pieces of the same puzzle after all.…
Vanessa’s new friend Dr. Sweet was always going to be something more than a mild-mannered lecturer at the Natural History Museum. His appearance in the season premiere was innocuous enough, but John Logan isn’t in the habit of introducing new characters who don’t have secret lives. ”Predators Far And Near” posits…
October 6, 1892 is the date in question. That’s when Alfred Lord Tennyson shuffled off this mortal coil, and although the Poet Laureate’s demise mostly lurks in the background of Penny Dreadful’s terrific third season premiere, it does serve a purpose. For one thing, it grounds the increasingly otherworldly happenings…
The elegant and the garish, the gothic and the grimy, have always been in productive but uneasy tension on Showtime’s Penny Dreadful. The series, which brings together famed heroes and villains from turn-of-the-century horror fiction, takes a trick familiar to popular cable series—dressing up pulpy entertainment in…
Did you know there are still people who don’t even realize that, when it comes to TV performances, there’s Eva Green, and then there’s, well, the rest of television? For only the cost of a tweet or Facebook message, you can help these poor folks by telling them to get their act together and start watching Penny…
After spending two seasons trying to fight his feral urges, it looks like Josh Hartnett’s Ethan Chandler might give in and enjoy the lupine ride in the upcoming season of Showtime’s horror drama. And more importantly, the guy finally got a damn haircut. This trailer for season three of Penny Dreadful also suggests the…
Let’s be honest: If you were to attempt to describe tonight’s season finale to someone unfamiliar with Penny Dreadful, it would be hard to get through it with a straight face. I’m not sure anyone but Eva Green could have convincingly played a climactic encounter with a Satan-possessed puppet of herself speaking with…
Much of “And Hell Itself My Only Foe” serves as connective tissue between last week’s blockbuster and next week’s finale, yet it’s still a generally strong episode in what has turned out to be an outstanding sophomore season. As Vanessa and Ethan are wrapping up a loose end at the Cut-Wife’s cabin (it turns out that…
While not strictly a bottle episode, “Little Scorpion” does devote the bulk of its running time to one location and two characters: Vanessa and Chandler holed up at the Cut-Wife’s former cottage on the moors. This turns out to be just the right move for this point in the season. For one thing, it gives us an extended…
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