A mariachi band consisting of owls. A western frontier town consisting of the remains of leftover junk. And to top it all off, a chameleon who thinks he’s Clint Eastwood. Can Gore Verbinski, director ...

There isn't another film quite like Rango, an animated Western that holds a clear reverence for the genre it emulates while barely managing to remain a family-friendly animated picture. One of the ...

Animated films made for children have long included winks directed at the grown-ups who’ve been dragged along; it’s a tradition almost as old as the medium itself. The classic Disney and Loonie Tunes ...

A master of weird and eclectic characters – Edward Scissorhands, Capt. Jack Sparrow, Mad Hatter, Willy Wonka – Johnny Depp is an acting chameleon, able to convincingly morph into any role. In the ...

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, where "the drugs began to take hold" in the Johnny Depp adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." In the manic, ...

Even in the whimsical world of animated movies, dusty frontier towns in the American West aren't a tropical chameleon's native habitat. So when a grandiloquent green lizard has managed to install ...

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There are lessons in Rango that should be taken and absorbed by many modern directors. Michael Bay, for starters, can get some gold-plated advice on how to put an exhilarating, edge-of-your-seat ...