To some people (me particularly) Tim Burton’s other 2005 film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory seemed to say: “Hey! Look everyone! We’ve remade Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory! removing all the things that made the original a classic; the drug-addled psychedelia, Gene Wilder’s spectacularly unhinged performance and the darker, malevolent tone; replacing them with an vacuous Studio lustre, uneventfully ticking off each scene as we went; providing no imagination or investment of our own!”. Thankfully Corpse Bride takes a [...]

Those guys out in the far East eh? They’re way ahead over there, what with their cars, their computers, their cigarette-per-person ratio, and most definitely, their films. While Western cinema has been shrugging its creative shoulders and piling-out re-make after re-make, big-budget epic war yarn after big-budget epic war yarn, Asian cinema have been making some of the most exciting, extreme, bizarre and compelling films in the world. The success of the East-Asian horror, i.e.; Ring, Dark Water, The Eye, [...]