Rango may well be one of the first mainstream animated films in the last few years that is hard to place in all the best ways. An animated Western, complete with menacing bandits, cowering townsfolk, ...

A rollicking, surreal, and existential kids’ Western that worships at the altars of Sergio Leone, Hunter S. Thompson, and Chinatown, Rango drowns under the weight of discordant objectives and ...

Gore Verbinski, best known for directing the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, has earned the right to do make a film for himself--the result is “Rango,” the story of a chameleon suffering ...

Often times for press events a studio will have a little area set aside for “Stand-ups.” As the name implies, it’s a spot for the correspondent to stand in front of a camera and introduce the other ...

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, ...