Tag: Johnny Depp
[FILM: Review] DARK SHADOWS
“We’re all going to get greased up after this,” announces Johnny Depp, a cheeky smirk obscured by his famously disheveled hair. “We’re going to take some psychedelics, grease up and get in the pool. You’re all welcome to come.”
Posted: May 23rd, 2012 under Arts, Arts Feature, Brag 462 (May 14), Film Reviews.
Tags: Alicia Malone, Chloe Grace Moretz, Dark Shadows, Eva Green, Film, Film Review, Gulliver McGrath, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim Burton, Vampire
[FILM: Review] Dark Shadows
In his latest Tim Burton collaboration, Johnny Depp skewers his dreamboat rep (and apparent intransience – the guy turns 49 in a month!), playing Barnabas Collins, an affluent, Georgian-era cad turned vampire. Damned by the lovesick witch Angelique (Eva Green) to eternal life as a cadaverous blood-sucker when he affiances the virginal Josette (Bella Heathcote), he is entombed for two centuries, then, quite by accident, exhumed into the chintzy-glam world of small-town America, 1972, where he finds his lineage dwindled, the grand family estate languishing in near-ruin, and – gasp! – Angelique, nattily pants-suited and working overtime to ensure the Collins’ decline.
Posted: May 23rd, 2012 under Arts, Brag 462 (May 14), Film Reviews.
Tags: Bella Heathcote, Dark Shadows, Film, Film Reviews, Gerard Elson, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim Burton
[FILM: Review] The Rum Diary
The Rum Diary Opens March 15 ** Based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson. Starring Johnny Depp. Written and directed by Bruce Robinson (Withnail and I). With cred like that, The Rum Diary should be gonzo heaven, right? Depp plays Thompson’s alter ego, journalist Paul Kemp. Thirty years old and jaded as hell, Kemp [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 454 (March 19), Film Reviews.
Tags: Aaraon Eckart, Amber Heard, Bruce Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Nikos Andronicos, The Brag