Lost in La Mancha chronicles director Terry Gilliam’s (Time Bandits, Brazil) attempt to make “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” a long simmering project close to the director’s heart. Johnny Depp was to star in the movie as Toby Grisoni, an advertising executive from the future that is transported in time to…
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From Hell (2001)
From Hell (2001) features Johnny Depp as Inspector Frederick Abberline who becomes involved in the Jack The Ripper case in London in 1888. The film is loosely based on the comic book series by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell that ran from 1989 to 1996 and focuses on one theory…
Blow (2001)
Blow (2001) features Johnny Depp as George Jung, a hustler and drug dealer who ultimately became responsible for most of the cocaine flowing into America in the late ’70s and early ’80s from Columbia. The film boasts a great cast with Ray Liotta and Rachel Griffiths as George’s parents, Franka…
Chocolat (2000)
Chocolat (2000) directed by Lasse Hallström tells the story of a insular French village in the late 1950s that finds it’s conservative attitudes and morality challenged when a young single mother and her child come to town and open a Chocolateir. Juliette Binoche’s character Vianne quickly becomes the lightning rod…
The Man Who Cried (2000)
Director Sally Potter wrote and directed this story about a young Jewish Fegele Abramovich and her struggle to reconnect to her identity and find her father. The story opens in 1927 in a small Jewish village in Russia where Fegele and her father live. A villager returning from the United…
Transcendence Trailer
Earlier this year I had heard Johnny Depp was working on a new science fiction movie called Transcendence but details were fairly sparse other than it involved Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). Well the first trailer for the new movie was released today. Scheduled to come out in mid-April 2014 the movie…
Depp in Review – Year Two
It’s been almost a year since I foolishly declared that I was going to spend the next 365 days revisiting Johnny Depp’s thirty year long acting career and rewatching and reviewing his 40+ movies (see A Year of Living of Depp-erously). I managed to review almost half of his films and…
Before Night Falls (2000)
Johnny Depp turns up in this 2000 film from director Julian Schnabel in two small, but pivotal roles. Before Night Falls examines the life and death of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas in a series of vignettes from his life. Javier Bardem plays Arenas with the great emotion, conveying not only Reinaldo’s sexual…
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
In this Tim Burton adaptation of Washington Irving’s Sleepy Hollow, Depp is cast as Ichabod Crane. Instead of portraying Crane as the jittery schoolmaster, Burton recasts him as a New York City constable bent on applying forensic science and “modern” investigative techniques to everyday cases. Crane’s fastidious investigations and doing things by the book puts…
The Astronaut’s Wife (1999)
One of three Johnny Depp movies released in 1999, The Astronaut’s Wife is definitely the weakest of the three and had me questioning my resolve to watch ALL the films Johnny Depp’s appeared in during his career. The Astronaut’s Wife features Depp as Spencer Armacost the astronaut while Charlize Theron plays…