Starring:
The Doors, Johnny Depp
Review:
Unhappy with what Oliver Stone did to Jim Morrison and the Doors
in his 1991 biopic? Here’s the doc for you. Director Tom
DiCillo avails himself of archival footage as Morrison, Ray
Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore leave their musical mark
on the 1960s. Clips from a film Morrison made of himself in […]

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Starring:
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Mia Wasikowska
Review:
Sexual panic is the last thing you’d expect to prod Alice to get
her ass down a rabbit hole. But, hell, this is Tim Burton’s
Alice in Wonderland, not your third-grade teacher’s
version. Scholars of British author Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) will
no doubt shriek, “Off with Burton’s head!” for […]

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Starring:
Johnny Depp, Channing Tatum, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup,
Marion…
Review: Infamous bank robber John Dillinger was at the movies on the steamy July night in 1934 when FBI agents gunned him down outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre. In Michael Mann’s jolting Public Enemies, sparked by a ball-of-fire Johnny Depp as Dillinger, America’s most wanted man sits in […]

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