Denise Di Novi Archives

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 5, 2002Alienated Artificial Boy

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp in one of their best collaborations. Burton creates this sweet oddball fable that is a take on Frankenstein where the monster becomes an alienated youth with scissors for hands

Director: Tim Burton

Actors: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Alan Arkin, Dianne Wiest, …

Category: Fantasy

5 July 200230 January 2026 by Roog

Meet the Applegates (1991)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 3, 2000Family of Insects/Black Comedy

Rather funny satiric comedy about a family of insects who set up house in suburbia posing as humans

Director: Michael Lehmann

Actors: Ed Begley Jr, Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman, Cami Cooper, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 July 20005 July 2021 by Roog

Batman Returns (1992)

Rating: ★★★★★

Dec 26, 2000Comic-Book Superhero

The second of Tim Burton's Batman films is even more beautifully dark and glistering than the first, introducing Michelle Pfeiffer as a sizzling Cat Woman and Danny De Vito as a venomous Penguin who respectively own the show

Director: Tim Burton

Actors: Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken, …

Category: Fantasy

26 December 200025 November 2025 by Roog

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Rating: ★★★★★

Feb 8, 2004Halloween Denizens Take Over Christmas/Stop-Motion Animation

Tim Burton and Henry Selick combine on this stop-motion animated fantasy made in Burton's characteristcially eccentric style, a beautifully stylised and dark fantasy in which assorted Halloween denizens invade Christmas

Director: Henry Selick

Actors: Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, …

Category: Fantasy

8 February 200423 April 2020 by Roog

Ed Wood (1994)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 24, 2002World's Worst Director Biopic

In one of his finest films, Tim Burton makes a ennobling tribute to the so-called world's worst director Edward D. Wood Jr who, in Johnny Depp's performance, becomes Burton's ultimate outsider hero

Director: Tim Burton

Actors: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

24 November 200217 October 2025 by Roog

Cabin Boy (1994)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 6, 2002Idiot's Absurdist Adventures

A conte cruel that delights in piling humiliations onto obnoxious rich kid Chris Elliott who is shanghaied aboard a ship. This comes in an absurdist vein not dissimilar to the works of producer Tim Burton

Director: Adam Resnick

Actors: Chris Elliott, Melora Walters, Ann Magnuson, James Gammon, …

Category: Fantasy

6 December 200214 May 2020 by Roog

James and the Giant Peach (1996)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 1, 2000Fantastical Journey/Stop-Motion Animation/Roald Dahl Adaptation

Henry Selick's follow-up to The Nightmare Before Christmas, a Roald Dahl adaptation filled with enormous visual creativity as a boy and several talking insects set forth on a sea journey in a giant peach

Director: Henry Selick

Actors: Paul Terry, Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite, …

Category: Fantasy

1 December 200012 May 2026 by Roog

Practical Magic (1998)

Rating: ★★

Jun 19, 2000Modern Witches

Chick Flick with Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as two sisters from a family of witches. The film never really settles on a consistent tone between comedy, thriller or romance and veers all over the place

Director: Griffin Dunne

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Aidan Quinn, Stockard Channing, …

Category: Fantasy

19 June 200029 April 2025 by Roog

Catwoman (2004)

Rating: ★

Oct 4, 2004Comic-Book Superheroine

The long-planned Halle Berry-starring Catwoman movie proved a widely ridiculed bomb. The film throws out the comic-book Catwoman and instead opts for an approach the frequently collapses into the risible

Director: Pitof

Actors: Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Benjamin Bratt, Lambert Wilson, …

Category: Fantasy

4 October 200429 December 2025 by Roog

Unforgettable (2017)

Rating: ★★

May 14, 2020Psycho Ex

A psycho-thriller that hearkens back to the Fatal Attraction and the copycats it inspired where a newly engaged Rosario Dawson has to deal with her fiance's vengeful ex, an ice cold Kathrine Heigl

Director: Denise Di Novi

Actors: Rosario Dawson, Katherine Heigl, Geoff Stults, Isabella Kai Rice, …

Category: Horror

14 May 202014 May 2020 by Roog