The story of Betelgeuse and the Deetz family is so foreign to the usual Filipinos, including me. I had never heard of Beetlejuice until I looked for recommended horror films on Google. Upon watching, however, a Filipino viewer would find commonalities and comfort in the American-centric story: afterlife, ghosts, slapstick
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Dumbo: The times made it better
I’d hate to talk about how Disney may have overspent on this remake. And since it would appear that a lot of Disney classics are being remade (Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, etc.), a lot of us who grew up with such classics might be adamant to
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hen I first encountered a Tim Burton film, The Nightmare Before Christmas, wonder and unease stayed with me as the credits rolled. As a kid who only knew the world in dichotomies, watching a film that blended darkness and humor and spectacular peculiarities was an experience. Later did I found
Big Eyes
Bilateral macro-ophthalmia, a clinical condition for big eyes or specifically, larger eyeballs, is a rarity. It is often part of a systemic condition. A more common finding would be exophthalmos, defined by Dorland’s Medical Dictionary as the abnormal protrusion of the eyeball. It is the appearance of enlargement of the
Two new Lana Del Ray songs in Tim Burton’s ‘Big Eyes’
That Oscar snub at Lana Del Ray’s soundtrack contribution to Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby robbed her track “Young & Beautiful” due recognition. But that is a thing in the past, and if she isn’t front-lining the soundtrack for the next Bond film, she can always find work elsewhere, as she has now in Tim
