Pages Tagged “Nightmare Before Christmas”
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- Christmas vs Halloween: The Battle Continues
Christmas strikes deeper into Halloween’s territory, continuing a relentless campaign that began decades ago in response to a 1993 incursion from Halloween Town. In recent years, Halloween has shored up its position by moving into previously unclaimed parts of the calendar in early October and September, itself running roughshod over tentative efforts by Oktoberfest to […]
- Holiday Creep(y)
One nice thing about The Nightmare Before Christmas is that it’s good for anytime from October through December!
- Nightmare Revisited
Listening to “Nightmare Revisited.” All-American Rejects were not the best choice for “Jack’s Lament” Amazingly, “What’s This” is worse. A song all about the thrill of discovery with NO ENERGY. Are they thinking about what they’re singing? Korn is knocking “Kidnap the Sandy Claws” out of the park. *whew* OK, this album is definitely improving. […]
- NBC 3D
I caught a re-release of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D. Movie: Good. 3D: Good. Digital Projection: Not so good, with visible pixels.
- Nightmare Before Christmas: 3-D Edition
This weekend we went out to see The Prestige, which was quite good. The next theater over was running The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D, and we figured, what the heck? After the first movie, we got tickets for another. The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favorite movies, but for some reason the […]
- Comic art should tell the story
There are two books I picked up recently that demonstrate how not to tell a story with pictures: Teen Titans #27 and the manga of The Nightmare Before Christmas. First, Teen Titans #27, first half of a two parter by fill-in team of Gail Simone and Rob Liefeld. I’d planned on writing a more thorough […]