Transcript: There is no disputing Johnny Depp is one of the great actors of his generation, though it feels like his recent films have put that, as well as his choices in choosing roles, into question. Will Black Mass reaffirm him as the worthiest of global A-listers and save him from the brink of box …
Oscar winning cinematographer Willy Pfister makes his directorial debut with this week’s highly anticipated new release starring Johnny Depp. A fascinating but ultimately overly ambitious piece of filmmaking, Transcendence attempts in both its subject matter and visual artistry to raise itself to the level of the best of director Christopher Nolan’s work. Many are …
Friday, May 11, 2012 Tim Burton, as the stylized director of such glorious oddities as Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and Ed Wood, is the pied piper to the inner goth in all of us. So it is with a heavy heart Cinema Siren has to report Dark Shadows, while it might have moments of loopy greatness …
Friday, May 20, 2011 We all know the public has shown they love Jack Sparrow. They love Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow fighting and swashbuckling and swaggering (or is it staggering) like Keith Richards in pirate regalia. Maybe they’d love Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow reading the phone book. Whatever the case, we can be …
Saturday, March 5, 2011 Imagine, if you will, some guys staying up all hours on a bong and highball fueled night talking their way through a marathon of classic Westerns. As they plow a deep crevasse through Western film history, they start hatching an idea for a genre bending, hilarious mash-up of computer animated comedy …
