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Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (trailer)

by Katharine Wray

[2.Nov.09] :. Tim Burton’s highly anticipated interpretation of the Lewis Carrol/Disney classic promises to deliver with a clever mix of live action and computer animation. Disney’s animated classic...

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Alice in Wonderland dir. Tim Burton (new film / trailer)

by Eleanore Catolico

[8.Oct.09] :. Alice in Wonderland will be out early next year March 5, 2010. Tim Burton here forgoes a direct remake of the animated film, instead reinterpreting it as something of a sequel to the original...

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The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus dir. Terry Gilliam (trailer)

by Matt Mazur

[10.Aug.09] :. This new Terry Gilliam film will surely get major play because it features the final performance of Heath Ledger, but that aside, the visual side of the movie looks mind-blowing. Add in Colin...

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Johnny Depp turns gangster in ‘Public Enemies’

by Lewis Beale [Newsday (MCT)]

[30.Jun.09] :. If it seems appropriate that “Public Enemies,” director Michael Mann’s film starring Johnny Depp as Depression-era bank robber and all-around gangster John Dillinger, is opening...

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Glenn Tilbrook and the Fluffers: Pandemonium Ensues

by Christel Loar

[28.May.09] :. Pandemonium Ensues is Glenn Tilbrook's third solo album since fronting Squeeze, and though it suffers from some spotty moments, it provides plenty of the magical melodic gifts for which Tilbrook is known, along with several pleasing sonic surprises.

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: July 2009

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.09] :. In a rare attempt at novelty, July jets along with only Harry Potter and the Ice Age crew sampling continuing series spoils. The rest provide unknown pleasures.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[26.Mar.09] :. Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[2.Apr.08] :. Burton indulges in meticulously designed, deliberately artificial sets, cinematography that makes the world monochromatic, protagonists with pale skin and sunken eyes – but it's that passion coursing beneath the surface that makes this film feel more alive than anything he's done in years.

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

Alan Rickman can be a saint, but sometimes evil becomes him

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[4.Jan.08] :. Alan Rickman isn’t a bad guy. He just often plays one. Bad guys like Gruber in “Die Hard,” Marston in “Quigly Down Under” and the Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin...

Tim Burton knew he was cut out to direct `Sweeney Todd’

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[18.Dec.07] :. You’d think you could get a rise out of Tim Burton by pigeon-holing the guy, telling him that the blood-spattered Stephen Sondheim musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End

by L.B. Jeffries

[4.Jun.07] :. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is actually awful enough to inspire appreciation for the games that get its flaws right.

Tia Dalma of ‘Pirates’ was a role to dye for

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[25.May.07] :. Tia Dalma, the sultry, scary, tattooed voodoo priestess, played a pivotal role in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. But her part is vastly more important in the third film in...

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.May.07] :. In the just-in-time for Memorial Day weekend Pirates sequel, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) pursues pleasure with the sort of determination usually associated with moviegoers.

Full Frame 3: The Bad, the Ugly, the Cute and the Delicious

by Kevin Greer, Jyllian Gunther, and Isaac Miller

[11.May.07] :. Subversive behavior is encouraged, girl-watching is indulged, Hunter S. Thompson gets some respect, and the pig-out at the wrap-up Awards Barbeque begins.

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.07] :. Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.

The Libertine (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.06] :. Rochester is "a beaten man," observes writer-director Laurence Dunmore, "Whilst he sort of knee-jerks the defiance."

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jul.06] :. Demented and punctuated by Depp's scowls and "oofs," Jack Sparrow's stunty bits are mostly amusing and sometimes even surprising.

The Libertine (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Mar.06] :. John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester (Johnny Depp), is always the smartest guy in the room.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Two-Disc Deluxe Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Nov.05] :. Tim Burton's movie is mostly perky, slightly edgy, and dully episodic.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jul.05] :. This being a Tim Burton film, the celebration of childish pleasures is not simply joyous, but tweaked.

Finding Neverland (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Mar.05] :. 'Play' is a means to define childhood, to prolong mythic innocence, to grant nobility.

Finding Neverland (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Nov.04] :. As James Barrie, the Scottish-born playwright most famous for imagining Peter Pan, Johnny Depp appears the consummately charismatic child-man.

Secret Window (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.04] :. 'Johnny's look,' says director David Koepp, 'mostly came from Johnny'.

Secret Window (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Mar.04] :. The foremost asset of this Stephen King adaptation is the wondrous Johnny Depp.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Feb.04] :. If ever there was a filmmaker made for DVD commentaries, it is Robert Rodriguez.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Dec.03] :. Johnny Depp spent time learning to swordfight, so that Captain Jack Sparrow could be poised and everready -- in a word, the Muhammad Ali of swordfighters.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Sep.03] :. 'Are you a Mexican or a Mexi-cant!?'.

Lost in La Mancha (2002)

by Stephen Tropiano

[9.Sep.03] :. What will most surely whet fans' appetites are the DVD's two 50-minute interviews with Terry Gilliam.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Jul.03] :. Ingenious and mesmerizing, Johnny Depp embodies the film's essential fantasy, that a pirate's life is exciting and unfettered.

Lost in La Mancha (2002)

by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

[13.Feb.03] :. Even in the midst of chaos and catastrophe, Gilliam's drive to create fantastic worlds can be as damning, and as appealing, as Quixote's.

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

When the Burgomaster (played by still great Horror film legend Christopher Lee) sends Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) to Sleepy Hollow, you may suspect that Ichabod is being sent to the land of Hammer Horror, or perhaps the woods of Horror Movies Past.

The Ninth Gate (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Roman Polanski and Johnny Depp. The match seems made in heaven, these two notoriously eccentric, fascinating, and difficult geniuses, plying their crafts, inspiring brilliance in one another.

The Ninth Gate (1999)

by Todd R. Ramlow

In The Ninth Gate, perennial provocateur Roman Polanski throws in his contribution to the millennial apocalypse/Armageddon/hell-on-earth films that have recently been such a staple of the action/adventure genre.

The Man Who Cried (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

...a sprawling affair, filled with bad accents (Cate Blanchett's tortured 'Russian'), tired cliches about studly horsemen and young girls' sexual awakenings, and really bad lip-syncing to Italian opera.

From Hell (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The real subject is the street, or rather, the street as a cultural concept, simultaneously brutal and beautiful.

From Hell (2001)

by F.L. Carr

'From Hell' is the story of a disturbed man on the trail of a madman -- an exploration of the minds of killer and the man sent to stop him.

Chocolat (2000)

by Dale Leech

If Lasse Hallström’s Chocolat were a Disney film, it would be Beauty and the Beast. Both are set in quaint mountainside hamlets filled with close-minded people who are led by...

Before Night Falls (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

A faithful filmic adaptation of Arenas' memoir could easily take six hours and still not capture the full impact of the book. Painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel ('Basquiat') consciously diverges from the traditional school of literary adaptation.

Blow (2001)

by F.L. Carr

Hey, it doesn't hurt that Johnny Depp makes a leisure suit look good.