While there’s no denying the Disney/Depp relationship went stale a long time ago and his clownish buffoonery has entirely consumed the once-great screen actor, there is still plenty to appreciate in Gore Verbinski’s beautifully realised, mean-spirited western. Quite why $250 million was pumped into it, or why anyone thought this was a suitable topic for […] Read more »
If there was any doubt that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp needed to stop working with each other and go and sit quietly on their own in a blackened room, then DARK SHADOWS should be the final nail in the coffin. Based loosely on a little-seen 60s TV series, the film sees vampire Barnabus Collins […] Read more »
When researching his role in Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp unearthed an unpublished manuscript by gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson about his formative years in Puerto Rico in the early 1960s. Not only did Depp manage to get the book published, but has produced a film adaptation, with himself as […] Read more »
The last thing I wanted to see was another PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN film, after struggling through two-and-a-half hours of thankless set-up in DEAD MAN’S CHEST and actively hating the tonally inconsistent and bewildering AT WORLD’S END. The disappointment of these films had been crushing. For me THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL was something […] Read more »