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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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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Despite my deepest cynicism, ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ is fun, modern, and beautiful.
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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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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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Something less fantastical from Tim Burton this way comes. Big Eyes, his biopic of Margaret Keane, opens on Christmas Day.
Continue ReadingMeet 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.
Continue ReadingAre 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.
Continue ReadingYes, 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!
Continue ReadingIt’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 …
Continue ReadingFor 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 […]
Continue ReadingFrom 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 …
Continue ReadingCongratulations 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 …
Continue ReadingLewis 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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