daily scream: shorn of the dead
2007’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is on Paramount+ in the US, Prime in the UK.
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald movie review: the crimes of this movie, though…
It certainly is MORE than the first movie: more incoherent, more confused about who its protagonist is, more crammed with contrivance and coincidence. Even the title is more nonsensical this time.
Frankenweenie (review)
The Tim Burton-est movie in a long while, not merely because it embodies all those wonderfully weird and humanist Burton attitudes but also because only Burton would think to make a stop-motion film in glorious, creamy, black-and-white.
North American box office: ‘Alice’ magically successful
A quick look at last week’s box office as we head into the new weekend (this is where losing a day early in the week leaves me — late late late): 1. Alice in Wonderland: $62.7 million (2nd week; drops 46%) 2. Green Zone: $14.3 million (NEW) 3. She’s Out of My League: $9.8 million … more…
July 10: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
Who has time to go to the movies, darling, when there’s all those fashion shows to attend and fabulous celebrities to stalk? But did you know that DVDs are for more than porn? Ich had no idea. So instead of the disgusting multiplex, where it’s all proles and unfabulous people anyway, you can stay in … more…
yet more pictures from London
Following up on the last batch of photos, here’s more of what I saw. (If you were following my trip on Twitter, some of this will sound familiar.) Guys: Would you get your hair cut here? (in Ealing): A shop in the Spitalfields neighborhood: Even the construction barriers near the Tate Modern have been turned … more…
best of 2007: 10 best movies
My picks for the best and worst movies of the year are no secret to anyone who follows my annual ranking of every new theatrical release I see. The ranking is a work-in-progress throughout the year. It begins when I see the first movie slated for release within a calendar year — for 2007, that … more…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street movie review: there will be blood
Just hearing a description of it, you have to think, my god, my god, *yes.* The twisted, separated-at-birth twins Tim Burton and Johnny Depp taking on Stephen Sondheim’s gory opera about a murderous barber? Who else would you give it to?
