Headlining the top of my must-see films this season is Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland.  Recently announced to debut in 3-D and releasing at the start of next month, it seems to be on the tip of  a lot of movie buff tongues. I’m big fan of Lewis Caroll’s nonsensical novels and with [...]

The first movie advertisement to run during Super Bowl 44 in Miami on CBS was Disney’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND. ALICE was the only film to advertise during the first half of the game starring Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts versus Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints. The second film to run an ad [...]

Pre-production has begun in Hawai’i for The Descendants, based on the book by Kaui Hart Hemmings. Academy Award®-winning writer/director Alexander Payne teams up with Clooney for the first time in what should have the audience saying “mahalo” by the time the end credits roll. The Descendants is Hawai’i native Hemmings’ first  novel; the production marks a return [...]

Here it is at last: the last Heath Ledger performance that the world will ever see. This performance is encased within a meticulous and frantic dream world, cobbled together by the half-mad Terry Gilliam and complemented by the addition of three generous performers who stepped in after Ledger’s death. For fans of Gilliam, the movie is [...]

The first official photo of Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter from Disney’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND is now available for your viewing pleasure! Coming to the big screen in Disney Digital 3D™ on March 5, 2010, ALICE IN WONDERLAND is an epic 3D fantasy adventure starring JOHNNY DEPP as the Mad Hatter and MIA WASIKOWSKA [...]

Johnny Depp has made a name for himself as an actor largely due to his ability to fully take on the character he’s playing, which adds a dimension of believability to his portrayal 0f the role. This talent should serve Depp beautifully in his next potential role, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. While Depp hasn’t officially [...]

If there’s one thing I’m just not buying into yet about Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, it has to be the actor I was certain I’d be the most confident about: Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. Don’t get me wrong: he looks mad, indeed. But his character design is so off-putting it might take [...]

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City truly felt like a breath of fresh air. It was visceral and fun, and stylistically true to the graphic novel source material in ways that no other adaptation had ever been before. Then came The Spirit, which sort of put a damper on things. Frank Miller shot himself [...]