Troubled shoot. Budgetary issues. Controversial Johnny Depp-as-a-Native-American performance. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, The Lone Ranger. Pass. Depp’s ridiculous accent aside, this looks like a train wreck (pun absolutely intended). I do feel like Armie Hammer is better than [...]

After much debate regarding the new pictures for Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, I speculated that we’d get a trailer by Christmas-time, maybe before The Hobbit or something like that. But lo and behold, the first medium length trailer (it’s [...]

Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger adaptation has been met with some trouble throughout the film-making process but it still is on pace for release on July 3, 2013. Despite the budgetary issues and the controversial use of Johnny Depp as [...]

The most depressing thing in the history of modern society happened the other day.  We all knew it was coming: the rumors swirled, the fears mounted, and then … they did it.  They told the world.  Weeping! Sobbing! A sense [...]

Usually, the least that can be said for a Tim Burton film is that he chose style over substance. Even when that style is the same derivative nonsense he’s been pushing for well over a decade, he has that on his side. [...]

As classical cinema seems to be so controversial at the moment, I shall now depart to topics less fraught with peril.  Like race. A few weeks ago, the first photo of Johnny Depp as Tonto in Disney’s new Lone Ranger [...]

Let me start with this… 1) I am not a fan of Tim Burton (or, rather, post-Sleepy Hollow Tim Burton). We have discussed this before. 2) I’m done with vampires. The craze is out of control… 3) The Burton-Depp-Bonham Carter [...]

Gotta love Twitter… Jerry Bruckheimer, mega producer and maker of movies (specifically very loud ones), tweeted a first look at the upcoming big-budget remake of The Lone Ranger . The much ballyhooed picture has had some budgetary problems (among other [...]

Tim Burton has been consistently delivering magnificent films that are some of the most engaging stylistically for nearly three decades.  His touch to a film is so distinct that there is no mistaking his work for someone else.  When I [...]

If you remember a while back, word was that the Lone Ranger film that was to star Johnny Depp and Armie ‘Awesome-Name’ Hammer  died on the vine due to cost concerns. Many wondered how a film about a cowboy and [...]