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‘Frankenweenie’ Movie Review – won’t resurrect Burton’s increasingly diminishing, stuttering and jerky returns

Frankenweenie Directed by Tim Burton Written by John August USA, 2012 ‘I Was A Teenage Frankenstein’ would be an apt subtitle for Tim Burton’s latest trawl through imagery and imagination that he has flogged to death over the past decade of his increasingly repetitive career, this time conjuring up an unnecessarily expensive re-imagining of his first 1984 …

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‘Celeste & Jesse Forever’ Movie Review – succeeds as neither romance nor comedy

Celeste & Jesse Forever Written by Will McCormack, Rashida Jones Directed by Lee Toland Krieger USA, 2012 Love in the 21st century seems to follow two distinct strains when it comes to the movies. First, there’s the standard issue romantic comedy, the mildly insulting, light and eminently predictable vehicle, usually starring a Jennifer of the Aniston or Lopez variety, …

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