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Astronaut movies centered on male protagonists with heavy emotional baggage are practically a genre unto themselves…
Mar 27 2019
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Toward the end of the horror comedy Dark Shadows, Angelique (Eva Green) begins to chip and…
Mar 26 2019
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The original animated Dumbo (1941) clocks in at only 64 minutes, a relic of the days when an afternoon at the movies…
Apr 5 2017
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We will have our Tim Burton and Michael Keaton reunion, it seems, but it won’t be in a Beetlejuice sequel (or…
Mar 7 2017
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Eva Green might be teaming back up with her old pal Tim Burton, with Deadline reporting that the Dark Shadows and Mis…
Feb 2 2017
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My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of…
Dec 15 2016
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With more scripted television programs in production than ever before, it follows that there are now a wider range…
Sep 28 2016
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The central setting of the new Tim Burton movie, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, is an abandoned…
Jun 20 2016
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Tim Burton may finally have his own superhero franchise—albeit without the spandex—with Miss Peregrine’s Home For…
Jun 19 2016
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Maybe now we know why Showtime has yet to renew Penny Dreadful for a fourth season. Before seeing how it all…
Jun 12 2016
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Nearly every episode of Penny Dreadful presents another opportunity to gush over Eva Green’s work as Vanessa Ives,…
Jun 5 2016
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The Penny Dreadful regulars aren’t reunited quite yet, but they’re all present and accounted for in “No Beast So…
May 22 2016
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At least once per season, John Logan and company get together and decide (with all due respect to the excellent…
May 15 2016
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In keeping with the two previous episodes this season, “Good And Evil Braided Be” acts as a sort of anthology…
May 8 2016
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Vanessa’s new friend Dr. Sweet was always going to be something more than a mild-mannered lecturer at the Natural…
May 1 2016
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October 6, 1892 is the date in question. That’s when Alfred Lord Tennyson shuffled off this mortal coil, and…
May 1 2016
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The elegant and the garish, the gothic and the grimy, have always been in productive but uneasy tension on…
Apr 8 2016
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Did you know there are still people who don’t even realize that, when it comes to TV performances, there’s Eva…
Jan 13 2016
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After spending two seasons trying to fight his feral urges, it looks like Josh Hartnett’s Ethan Chandler might give…
Jul 5 2015
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Let’s be honest: If you were to attempt to describe tonight’s season finale to someone unfamiliar with Penny Dreadful…