Tag Archives: Johnny Depp

the virtuosity of the raising stars (film: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape – Lasse Hallström, 1993)

Posted on July 20, 2024 by admin

‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape‘ (1993) is one of the best-known feature films of the Swedish director Lasse Hallström, whose launching pad to international fame was built of the music videos of ABBA’s hit songs. Today it has also become a … Continue reading →

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too much chocolate can be dangerous to your health (film: Chocolat – Lasse Hallström, 2000)

Posted on January 24, 2024 by admin

‘Chocolat‘ (2000) is one of those very successful films that I should have seen at their time and that somehow I missed, caught up in the whirlwind of my previous lives. I kept putting it off, but now its turn … Continue reading →

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the bored king meets the ambitious courtesan and they fall in love (film: Jeanne du Barry – Maïwenn, 2023)

Posted on December 16, 2023 by admin

‘Jeanne du Barry‘, the film that opened this year’s 2023 Cannes Festival (without being in competition) is at the same time an author’s film and a historical blockbuster. Maïwenn – once a child actor, then, at 16, the wife of … Continue reading →

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Poirot is Back (Film: Murder on the Orient Express – Kenneth Branagh, 2017)

Posted on January 10, 2018 by admin

It’s not easy to adapt Agatha Christie to screen in 2017, and it is even more difficult to take upon ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ which already had a fabulous and stars-blessed version made in 1974 by Sidney Lumet. The … Continue reading →

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two wonderful actors looking for a better film (Film: Mortdecai – Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnny Depp, 2015)

Posted on August 2, 2016 by admin

Sometimes I am wondering what do these actors think, or maybe better said what do their agents think. Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow are two of the most gifted actors of their generation, blessed not only by success and awards, … Continue reading →

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an American anti-hero (Film: Black Mass – Johnny Depp, 2015)

Posted on October 4, 2015 by admin

The season for screening films with ambitions for Academy Awards must have started. Black Mass is directed by Scott Cooper – a relative newcomer (this is only his third film) but a rising star among directors at Hollywood if we … Continue reading →

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vampire games (Film: Dark Shadows – Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, 2012)

Posted on October 21, 2014 by admin

When Tim Burton and Johnny Depp come together one already knows what to expect. Dark Shadows is the 8th film directed by Burton with Depp in the cast, the first one being Edward Scissorhands from 1990, maybe the most famous … Continue reading →

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almost underrated (Film: The Rum Diary – Johnny Depp, 2011)

Posted on October 7, 2014 by admin

Watching Johnny Depp in action is always a holiday for movie fans. Depp is one of these actors who can hold a film by himself, and in fact he does exactly this in many cases, included here. The problem starts … Continue reading →

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great film about the ‘worst director ever’ (Film: Ed Wood – Tim Burton, 1994)

Posted on January 18, 2014 by admin

One of the best thing Hollywood makes is films about Hollywood. Some may judge these movies like kind of acts of self-adulation, but the fact is that films dedicated to films making and even homage films about past stars and … Continue reading →

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Tourist Trap (Film: The Tourist – Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, 2010)

Posted on January 16, 2012 by admin

I confess that I do not like at all Angelina Jolie. As an actress she does not seem to me to have done anything that uses more her acting talent than her looks, and her looks … well, she is … Continue reading →

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