Johnny Depp, after years of compelling work in films as diverse as Benny & Joon, Ed Wood, Dead Man, Cry-Baby and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, actively crossed over into lazy sellout territory when he saidyes to Disney and started a decade-plus-long Keith Richards impressionin 2003. (His longtime cohort Tim Burton also stopped trying […]
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alFresco FilmFesto’s Deppinitely going off the Depp end
This is totally OLD internet news because everyone’s been tweeting about this for three minutes at least, but here it is anyway. The 12th annual alFresco FilmFesto has announced their summer series and heeeere’s Johnny!/they’re Depptomaniacs!/my favourite album is Minor Threat’s classic Out of Depp!/etc. (please feel free to add your best Johnny Depp puns […]
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Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides sinks
The fourth Pirates movie is a forgettable attempt to extend an expired Disney franchise. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley have abandoned ship, leaving Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Depp. Even the director of the first three movies has bailed, replaced by Rob Marshall (Chicago). The plot involves a group of pirates (a British flotilla, religious Spaniards, […]
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Rango stalls
Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski and star Johnny Depp venture into the world of animation, a journey that yields inconsistent results. Depp voices the title character, a domesticated chameleon left stranded in the Mojave desert. Searching out sustenance and companionship, he ends up in the Wild West town of Dirt, where he backs […]
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Depp impact
Johnny Depp is easily the silver-screen idol for women (and men) young and old. His on-screen personae and leading-man charisma are remarkable for their lack of definition and comfort—from making you cringe as the syphilis-afflicted Earl of Rochester in The Libertine, to making knees weak in the romantic drama Chocolat. His work from the last […]