Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie. Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland ends on a sentimental note: Barrie (Johnny Depp) reminds the orphaned Peter (Freddie Highmore) that the power of imagination can be…
Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials with Dylan O’Brien: Beating latest Johnny Depp flop at the domestic box office. ‘Maze Runner 2’ to beat Johnny Depp ‘Black Mass’ The 20th…
‘Despicable Me 2’ Despicable Me 2 easily tops domestic box office as ‘The Lone Ranger’ 2013 bombs July 8 update: Here’s a quick rundown of the July 5-7 weekend’s top…
Armie Hammer as The Lone Ranger, Johnny Depp as Tonto. The Lone Ranger Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean quasi-sequel in Western garb In highfalutin’ acting circles, it’s said that…
Magic Mike: the “male stripper movie.” Shirtless Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer, and Matthew McConaughey are featured in the red-band Magic Mike trailer. (Please scroll down.) Oscar winner Steven…
Marvel ‘The Avengers’ movie vs. ‘The Dark Knight’ June 29 update: Starring Scarlett Johansson (photo, as Black Widow), Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Hiddleston, and…
San Francisco with Jeanette MacDonald and Clark Gable Brad Bird’s film adaptation of James Dalessandro’s novel 1906, about San Francisco at the time of the 1906 earthquake, will definitely not…
Amanda Seyfried, Justin Timberlake, In Time Assisted by costlier 3D tickets, Paramount/DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots may gross $36-$38 million this Halloween weekend, after taking in an estimated $9 million…
Laurence Olivier = Kenneth Branagh in My Week with Marilyn. Once upon a time, Kenneth Branagh was hailed as the new Laurence Olivier. Back in early 1990, Branagh was nominated…
Leonardo DiCaprio was the highest-paid actor from May 2010-May 2011, according to Forbes magazine. Last year’s winner, Johnny Depp was down one spot at no. 2. Though both DiCaprio and…
Sal Mineo biopic actor Val Lauren. James Franco has cast Val Lauren in Sal, Franco’s planned biopic of two-time Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Sal Mineo, according to The Hollywood…
“Hot Chick Movie”: Jamie Chung, Vanessa Hudgens diplay quite a bit of cleavage in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. April 1 update: Starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, and Robert…
People’s Choice Awards’ winners ‘Grown Ups’ and actor Adam Sandler: Computer virus infection? The People’s Choice Awards are supposed to be about the will of the people. And as so…
The Tourist with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s costly and widely panned spy caper has become a domestic box office bomb; yet there’s a chance Columbia…
Top Gun movie remake or sequel? Tom Cruise as Maverick in Tony Scott’s 1986 blockbuster. Paramount Pictures, the studio that brought you (or your parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents) Cecil B.…
Alice in Wonderland 2010: Johnny Depp Mad Hatter no help to Tim Burton movie that is a travesty of Lewis Carroll tale. All visuals and no substance.
Robert Pattinson in Twilight. The Hurt Locker? Carey Mulligan? Jeremy Renner? The White Ribbon? Twilight. If the Academy decides to listen to The People, they might want to find ways…
The Abyss film with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. The Abyss, the costly, special-effect-laden, deep-sea adventure drama about underwater aliens and a bickering married couple, will be screened at a special 20th…
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly with Marie-Josée Croze: Golden Globe Awards’ non-ceremony eyebrow-raiser. Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby’s book of memoirs – reportedly written after Bauby (1952–1997) suffered a stroke…
J.M. Barrie and Peter Pan origins: Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland opts for crowd-pleasing myths instead of a depiction of a darker, more complex reality.
Johnny Depp is a lifeless, Disneyfied version of Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie in Marc Forster’s feel-good family tragedy Finding Neverland.
An Ed Wood film from 1971, the long-thought (partially) lost sexually explicit supernatural tale Necromania was an adult genre groundbreaker.
Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards winner Kristen Stewart. Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards: Kristen Stewart & Johnny Depp among winners Kristen Stewart and Johnny Depp were two of the film category winners…
Nov. 13 update: At no. 5 on the domestic box office chart this weekend, Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar raked in $11.47 million – at the very lower end of expectations…
Penélope Cruz, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides May 26: Featuring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Claflin, Ian McShane, and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Rob Marshall’s Pirates of the…
Golden Globes’ omissions: The absence of megastar Leonardo DiCaprio for his performance in either Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island or Christopher Nolan’s Inception was this year’s biggest surprise. After all, the…
Alice in Wonderland characters: Mia Wasikowska as Alice, the girl in blue dress who has just smashed several box office records. ‘Alice in Wonderland’ characters smash box office records March…
AFI FEST showcases Heath Ledger in Casanova: Chaos in Hollywood area. AFI FEST: ‘Casanova’ movie chaos The worst thing I can say about the 2005 edition of the AFI Los…
Best Actor Oscar nominee Johnny Depp is flawlessly weird in the surprisingly entertaining Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.