Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Argh. The fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is, like many of the characters featured in the flimsy plot, simply dead on arrival. It’s a boring retread…
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Mainstream Chick’s Quick Takes: Alice Through the Looking Glass; Maggie’s Plan; A Monster with a Thousand Heads
Alice Through the Looking Glass - I didn’t see Tim Burton’s 2010 re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland, but did read up on it a bit before heading into this sequel…
Black Mass
There’s really only one reason to see Black Mass - and that is the performance of Johnny Depp as south Boston’s notorious Irish mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger. Depp has…
The Lone Ranger
Too long. Too boring. Too convoluted. There you have it. The Lone Ranger in a nutshell. I really tried to like this movie, at least a little bit. After all,…
Dark Shadows
I remember all too well running home from school to catch Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins in the original vampire soap Dark Shadows. All my girl friends and I had…
The Rum Diary
Johnny Depp has a special connection with Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. First he played him in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and now he’s brought Thompson’s “long-lost" novel…
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (a.k.a. Pirates 4)
Pirates 4 is what it is what it is: Two-plus hours of swashbuckling hijinks on the high seas with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) – and a bunch of other…
The Tourist
‘Tis the season for dramatic, intense, riveting, must-see Oscar-worthy films. The Tourist isn’t one of them. Sure, it’s kind of fun. And you get to tool around Venice with Johnny…
Alice in Wonderland
With his Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton is back with a film that may look in some ways like one of his others but in a lot of ways is…
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Terry Gilliam does not make mainstream movies. They are always quirky and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is no exception. Part of the strangeness this time is that (as anyone…
Another Vampire Enters the Fray
I found this posted today on the Syfy Wire and couldn't be happier. I loved Dark Shadows. And Johnny Depp as Barnabas! He can suck my blood any time. Forget…
Public Enemies
Let me start by saying I am a big Johnny Depp fan. I loved him in "Chocolat" and "Finding Neverland", even the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy. He's one of…