Posts Tagged ‘Johnny Depp’
Film Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
There is nothing like going back to a beloved series, so etched in your mind both the experiences of reading the books and then seeing the film adaptations. While it is not Harry Potter, it is the same universe only in prequel form and expanding…
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Film Review – Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) is the kind of film that seems to have stepped out of the past. Not just because it’s a period piece, but also in its execution. Director Kenneth Branagh does here what he did with his update of Cinderella (2015):…
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Film Review – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
14 years ago Disney released what I will definitively name the best movie in an incredibly specific and narrow genre. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is the best movie based on an amusement park ride. There were many factors in…
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Film Review – Alice Through the Looking Glass
Therapist: So Allen, what brings you to my office? Allen: I need help, doc. Therapist: What seems to be the problem? Allen: I just saw a terrible movie. T: What movie was that? A: Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) T: Oh yes, I think…
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An Analysis – American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson (2016)
The first episode of Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski’s American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson is entitled “From the Ashes of Tragedy.” It opens with footage of the beating of Rodney King by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, interspersed with the…
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Film Review – Legend
Janus the two-faced Roman God. The Taoist yin and yang. Nickelodeon’s CatDog. The human struggle has long been envisioned in terms of opposing-yet-intertwined forces. In Legend, writer-director Brian Helgeland’s dialectic envisions Tom Hardy as both sides of humanity’s conflicted co-dependence with itself. Tom Hardy –…
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Film Review – Black Mass
Eighteen years ago, Johnny Depp starred in the gangster picture Donnie Brasco (1997). In that film, he played a young up and coming FBI agent who falls deep undercover with the Italian mafia, even coming to identify – to a certain degree – their principles…
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Film Review – Into the Woods
Long before Shrek was cramming modern day pop references into classic fairy tales, many years before the TV show Once Upon a Time was blending all of Disney’s properties into a single tale, well before the admittedly brilliant comic book Fables was mashing together classic…
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