Helena Bonham Carter

Best of New York International Children's Film Festival

Tim Burton's Dark Shadows

Johnny Depp plays a vampire family-man

Gothic Council Stages Tim Burton Intervention

Tim Burton has become something of a trial to the goths of the world. On the one hand, his contribution to the sub-culture simply cannot be overstated. Films like Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and The Nightmare Before Christmas served as the gateway into the spooky side for many of us, and for t ... More >>

Saturday Night: Mojo Nixon At The Continental Club

Photos by Jason Wolter​Mojo Nixon & the Toadliquors Continental Club February 26, 2011 When Mojo Nixon "retired" from recording and touring following 2009's Whisky Rebellion, the music world breathed a sigh of relief (or sorrow) that one of its principal loose cannons had finally been silence ... More >>

Talk of the Nation

How therapy saved the monarchy in The King's Speech.

The End Is Near

In Harry Potter finale the kids are not alright

Open Up And Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgery Playlist

​If you're reading this around the time it's published, Rocks Off will once again be in the dentist's chair. This has been something of a recurring theme for us this summer, as we have been trying to reverse years of neglecting our poor gums by undergoing several surgical procedures that do no ... More >>

Alice in Chains

Tim Burton's Wonderland is not nearly curiouser and curiouser enough.

Alice in Chains

Tim Burton's Wonderland is not nearly curiouser and curiouser enough.

Save Yourself!

From McG's Terminator, that is. What a drag.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tim Burton's gorgeously gruesome new film

Like Star Trek with Worms

Say Cheese

Wallace and Gromit make their long-overdue feature debut

Love in Gloom

Tim Burton is dead-on again in the darkly delightful Corpse Bride

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

After the Fall

Temptation flourishes in the garden of Young Adam

Lying Liar

A dad tells Big Fish tales to a son who can't believe his ears

Dream River

Michael Petroni explores where we go Till Human Voices Wake Us

Dental Damned

David Atkins's Novocaine numbs even Steve Martin

Aping an Icon

Tim Burton monkeys around with the original Planet of the Apes, but is it evolution?

Golden Room with No View

Merchant Ivory's lush take on Henry James needs a few more turns of the screw

Beyond Despair

Tired plotlines pummel Fight Club

For Love and Money

The Wings of the Dove is marvelously complex

An Off Night

Neither Man nor Monster

Frankenstein claims to go by the book, but fails in the final chapter