Subject: Tim Burton

• Comic-Con 2007: Last Post

  Comic-Cons are a bit like film festivals -- most people there just want to go to the big-name stuff, but you really get more out of the experience if you mix it up a little. So rather than see Kevin Smith tell his stories about Jon Peters for the umpteenth time, it seemed a better use of the moment to go watch Ray Harryhausen do a live commentary while screening the new DVD of his 1957 movie 20 Million Miles to Earth. (It bows on Blu-Ray Dec. 4.) Harryhausen is, of course, a living legend of ci

  July 31, 2007

• SoCal Independent Film Festival: Nine Hours

  September 8, 2007

• Monday's Headlines. No Surprises: Pot not a drug, says Schwarzenegger

  To catch an arsonist: "We will hunt down the people responsible for (the Santiago Fire). We will not fail," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said over the weekend. "If I were one of those people who started the fire, I would not sleep soundly." Strong words, but how much weight do they carry? Four years ago, a man was witnessed starting the fire that killed four people and burned more than 200 homes in San Bernardino. Was he ever caught? Nope. Still on fire: Though containment is now at 65 percent, t

  October 29, 2007

• Film Pick of the Weekend: The Women of Sex and the City: A (Semi-) Appreciation

  So they finally coaxed me out of the ivory tower that is the Calendar Dept. and convinced me to blog. Okay, first thing's first. A moment of silence for Harvey Korman. Blazing Saddles is playing this Wednesday at the Regency South Coast Village. Go see it and be reminded of the man's brilliance. My film pick of the weekend is definitely not Sex and the City. Haven't seen it, and, merciful God willing, I won't ever have to. Lest you assume my opinion is based on some kind of willful ignorance

  May 30, 2008

• Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something With a 30 Share

  March 2, 2000

• Prince of Darkness

  August 23, 2001

• Nigh Intolerable

  October 16, 2003

• Things Are Not As They Seem in Henry Selick's Stunning 'Coraline'

  February 5, 2009

• Bustin' Out at Santa Ana's Grand Central Art Center With the "Roll for a Cure" Show

  Bustin’ out all over at Grand Central Art Center

  May 22, 2008

• Getting Your (Holly) Jollies

  Have yourself a freaky little Christmas at the J. Flynn

  December 20, 2007

• Director's Cut

  Tim Burton's gorgeously gruesome Sweeney Todd

  December 20, 2007

• Pots to Spruce Up Your Tomb

  Halloween comes early at Night Gallery Ceramics

  August 30, 2007

• Sweat the Technique

  Painter Mark Cummings drops old-schooloils like science By Theo Douglas

  January 4, 2007

• Summertime

  August 26, 1999

• Special Screenings

  Movie(s) of the Week: A Bucket of Blood and Bride of Frankenstein

  October 26, 2006

• Magic Touch

  December 28, 2006

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

  October 19, 2006

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Poetry Slams?

  August 31, 2006

• Special Screenings

  May 4, 2006

• Art School Rejects

  May 4, 2006

• This Week in Epic Failures

  January 26, 2006

• Special Screenings

  December 22, 2005

• Skeleton Glee

  Tim Burton taps the pop-Gothic semi-culture for a merrily macabre puppet folktale Corpse Bride

  September 22, 2005

• Grimm Reaper

  August 25, 2005

• Attack of the Big Head Floating in the Sky

  August 18, 2005

• More Dahl, Less Depp

  July 14, 2005

• Who Was That Masked Man?

  June 9, 2005

• Movies That Aren't Star Wars

  May 19, 2005

• Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

  February 17, 2005

• The Gift You Never Unwrapped

  January 13, 2005

• Father Knows Less

  December 18, 2003

• Tender Lumplings Everywhere

  October 31, 2002

• Requiem for a Wiseguy

  March 7, 2002

• Repo Men

  August 30, 2001

• Damn Dirty Remakes

  May 31, 2001

• Boned

  March 15, 2001

• More Photos from San Diego Comic-Con 2009

  Chris Victorio​Number one nerd fantasy: Princess Leia under the enslavement of Jabba? Probably. Here are a couple more excellent photo outtakes by photog Chris Victorio from San Diego Comic-Con 2009--hot gals, skimpy cosplay, ROBERT fucking PATTINSON (meow!) and more.There's also plenty of images from the super popular Twilight panel (are we fans? Not really. Fans of R. Pattz? Yes. Very much so). Throw in a couple of fuzzy fictional animals (Max of video game classic Sam & Max takes the ca

  July 28, 2009

• In '9,' Shane Acker Creates an Animated Postapocalyptic Hellscape

  September 10, 2009

• Dishney: D23 Revelations!

  Paul Hiffmeyer/Disney​D23: It's all over! On September 10-13, the massive D23 Expo converged all things Disney--films, theme parks, merch--into one convenient building. And to be honest? We were kinda bored. Sure, some major announcements were made (stay tuned for that) and we got to see some cool things (Nightmare Before Christmas! In 3D!) but we found it a bit slow for our liking. The Convention Center was split into three floors: The first brought us the main exhibition hall, full of booths

  September 14, 2009

• Haunted House Review: Halloween Haunt at Knott's Scary Farm

  October 13, 2009

• Max and the Gang's All Here, But Spike Jonze Can't Get the Spirit of the 'Wild Things' Onscreen

  October 15, 2009

• Grand Central Arts Center Makes Way for Resident Art Show

  Grand Central's artists in residence. Pictured from left to right: David Brokaw, John Hedrick, Tim Hogan, Seth Hawkins, Greg Eberhardt, Monica Chapon, Preston Daniels, Patrick Strand, Kevin Stewart-Magee. Those not pictured: Jacob Lecuyer, Melissa Johnson, Eric Jones, Tiffany, Ma, Hala Swearingen, Greg Swearingen, and Neil Sharum.​On the road to being a successful, well-paid artist (well, relatively speaking in most cases), the importance of earning your stripes in a respected residency progra

  September 23, 2009