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		<title>BATMAN RETURNS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kaminski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by: Tim Burton

Written by: Daniel Waters, Sam Hamm

Starring: Michael Keaton, Danny Devito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough, Michael Murphy, Pat Hingle, Andrew Bryniarski, Cristi Conaway, Vincent Schiavelli

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Film was released June 19th, 1992.

Review by Michael Kaminski

[rating: 4]

After leaving Disney’s animation department due to the incompatibility of his eccentric drawings with the cutesy, family-friendly content of the corporation, Tim Burton’s bizarre short film Frankenweenie found its way to Paul Reubins, who chose the young visionary to direct a big-screen adaptation of his equally bizarre television series. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure was a huge success when it came out in 1985, and Tim Burton was now not only a director but a bankable one. He followed the film up with the ghoulishly weird Beetlejuice, one of his best and most imaginative films. Though Beetlejuice carried the bizarre fantasy with a strangely human center, Burton was itching to do something more personal. However, he just couldn’t resist the big-budget rejuvenation of one of comics darkest hero's: Batman. Burton’s bleak vision of the dark knight took heavy inspiration from Frank Miller’s violent and psychologically challenging portrait of the character, turning what was then best known for Adam West’s campy comedy from ...]]></description>
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		<title>EDWARD SCISSORHANDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by: Tim Burton

Written by: Caroline Thompson (screenplay &#38; story), Tim Burton (story)

Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne West, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Film was released December 7th, 1989.

Review by Ray DeRousse

By 1990, a 32 year-old Tim Burton had established himself as Hollywood's quirky, eccentric cash cow with his three previous smash hits.

His feature film debut, a colorful and idiotic masterpiece starring man-child Pee Wee Herman, defied all expectations and became a cult hit in the summer of 1985. Burton followed that in 1988 with Beetlejuice, a zesty and bizarre tale of the afterlife. Then, Burton crafted a gothically art-deco rendition of Batman that became a worldwide phenomenon in 1989.

Burton's first three films revealed his gift for visual imagination and creative shot composition. Each film had indelible imagery and editing: the kitchen sequence in Pee Wee's Big Adventure ... the haunted dinner sequence in Beetlejuice ... the museum sequence in Batman.

However, all three films also illustrated Burton's inability to connect with his material beyond the visual elements. While all three suffered from poorly-constructed scripts, Burton never attempted to look past the next whiz-bang technical exercise and into the deeper aspects of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>BATMAN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by: Tim Burton

Written by: Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren

Based on the classic DC Comics character created by Bob Kane

Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Whul, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Palance, Tracey Walter, Jerry Hall

Distributed by Warner Brothers

Film was released on 23rd June 1989

Review by Matt Holmes

[rating: 3.5]

Batman is a visual sensation, director Tim Burton's homage and love letter to the silent horror movies he saw in his youth and with the stunning Academy Award winning Gothic set and production design from the great Anton Furst, Burton's Gotham is without doubt one of the most distinctive and awe inspiring settings ever created on film.

The script calls it "The City of the Future" but the Gotham depicted in this movie exists in a timeless state with Gothic European architecture, statues that would usually only exist in Greek mythology, enormous and impossible skyscrapers right out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and very little pop culture references, clothing or technology that could age the movie. That is except of the course the dating but strangely fitting Prince Soundtrack that accompanies the film, something which Burton had no say in.

Gotham is a depiction of New York if it had gone ...]]></description>
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		<title>BEETLEJUICE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by Tim Burton

Written by Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren, Larry Wilson

Starring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Winona Ryder, Glenn Shadix 

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Film was released March 30th 1988

Review by Chris Daniel

 [rating: 3]

In 1988 Tim Burton released Beetlejuice, the story of two newly deads who must learn to deal with the new owners of their home.  As a 12 year old this film was literally the greatest thing since sliced bread.  It was both funny and scary and stranger than anything I had seen before.  For me personally, Beetlejuice is the beginning of Tim Burton and the beginning of his own exciting genre of film.

We have all heard the term Burton-esque thrown around.  While this was an immediate treasure for audiences, as time has gone on it has become played out and tiresome.  I still enjoy the film, but it is easy to see in it the annoying patterns that Burton has yet to shake.
 


Story

Beetlejuice is a wonderfully creative story that was unlike anything else that we had seen.  In the late 80's we had our chunk of Vietnam War dramas and Eddie Murphy cop movies.  ...]]></description>
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