Movie Reviews

The Burton/Depp “loco” locomotive finally hits a few obstacles on the track, but I don’t think it is completely derailed. There was always going to be storm clouds on the horizon in taking on Dan Curtis’ epic Dark Shadows, and this was a gamble that hasn’t really paid off. There’s horror, there’s comedy, there’s familial squabbling and centuries-old rivalries, there’s a curse and there are, indeed, monsters, but Burton’s twisted sense of the fun and the macabre can’t quite juggle these disparate elements in the air all at once and, as a consequence, they all come crashing to the floor around his grave-soiled feet. And you'll find that a great cast is mostly... [Read more]