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Tag: tim burton

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Disneyland Resort: Mickey’s Halloween Party and the End of a Terror

October 5, 2016Whit Honea

Halloween at the Disneyland Resort is a festive time full of family-friendly frights, spooky special events (separate ticket required), and all kinds of seasonal magic. This year, say goodbye to the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror before it checks out forever!

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Tim Burton’s (Not So) Peculiar Imprint Ceremony

September 17, 2016Whit Honea

Legendary filmmaker Tim Burton was honored with an imprint ceremony in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, just before a screening of his new film. The only thing peculiar about it was that our own Whit Honea was there. So he wrote about it.

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5 Reasons to Watch ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’

May 27, 2016Karen Walsh

Despite my deepest cynicism, ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ is fun, modern, and beautiful.

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‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ – A Sequel With Less Muchness

May 26, 2016Marziah Karch

In terms of the first movie, ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ was just mostly Alice. It’s a movie that still doesn’t quite have its muchness, but seems almost ready to find it.

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How Tim Burton's 'Batman' Ruined Super Hero Movies

July 15, 2015Mordechai Luchins6

June 23, 1989, was a huge day for comic book movies. It gave us the film that changed everything. Thing is, it wasn’t entirely a good thing.

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New Tim Burton Trailer: Stunning and Creepy, of Course

September 20, 2014Sarah Pinault1

Something less fantastical from Tim Burton this way comes. Big Eyes, his biopic of Margaret Keane, opens on Christmas Day.

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Comic: Lenore Swirlies Features The Cutest, Craziest Undead Little Girl Ever

September 6, 2012Nicole Wakelin

Meet Lenore. She’s an undead little girl with a 400-year-old vampire friend named Ragamuffin who looks like a doll who’s had most of his haired yanked out. Lenore is good-natured, mostly, so the havoc and death of innocent bystanders around her is usually not on purpose.

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Check Out the New Trailer for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie

June 29, 2012Tony Sims

Are you as excited as the rest of us for this next masterpiece from Tim Burton? Well here is the latest trailer, to give you another look at Frankenweenie.

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The First Trailer for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie Is Here

March 1, 2012Matt Blum

Yes, the first trailer for Frankenweenie has arrived, and it looks like a funny, strange movie with lots of homages to old horror films. In other words, exactly what you’d expect from an animated Tim Burton film. Enjoy!

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New One-Sheet Poster Released for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie

February 22, 2012Matt Blum

It’s hard not to wish, based on the previews I’ve seen so far for John Carter, that Disney had kept the film that was originally supposed to be released on March 9 instead. Why? Because that movie — which is …

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Disney Universe for the Wii: Take a Trip to the Eccentric Side of Disney

November 20, 2011Patricia Vollmer7

For the first time since joining GeekMom 10 months ago, I actually took some initiative and contacted Disney Interactive for a review copy of their newest video game, Disney Universe.  Not to toot my own horn, but till now I’ve either been invited to review something, or else I rode on the coattails of another […]

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Comic-Con Report: Danny Elfman

July 22, 2010Dave Banks

From the theme for The Simpsons to Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Danny Elfman’s music is instantly recognizable. Its quirky and energetic sound instantly is tied to the red-headed composer. Elfman sat down to talk to …

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GeekDad Puzzle Of The Week: Through The Looking Glass Solution

March 6, 2010Dave Banks

Congratulations to Emerson Williams, who is neither Tweedle Dee nor Tweedle Dum, and managed to solve the Lewis Carroll cipher and win a $50 gift certificate from the Web version of the Cheshire Cat, ThinkGeek. Puzzle: Lewis Carroll, before sitting …

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GeekDad Puzzle Of The Week: Through The Looking Glass

March 1, 2010Dave Banks

Lewis Carroll, before sitting down to write Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, was a mathematician at Oxford University. Though he was good at it, he found the work boring and his mind wandered. However, he did enjoy playing with numbers and …

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