Subject: Johnny Depp

• Little Saigon Film Director Wins Major Award

  Congratulations to Orange County-based film director Ham Tran. Judges at the AZN Asian Excellence Awards in Los Angeles recently named Tran's Journey from the Fall as the outstanding independent film of 2007. Tran's epic movie follows a fictional Vietnamese family from the day the Communists invaded Saigon in 1975 through the early 1980s and its relocation to OC's Little Saigon. I reviewed the movie favorably in 2006. LA Weekly's film critic Scott Foundas applauded much of the film but believe

  June 4, 2007

• To Do Tonight - 12/10

  MENORAH LIGHTING, 6pm Take part in this Menorah lighting on the 7th night of Hanukkah. JC Penney Lower Level in the Westminster Mall, PIRATE’S CHRISTMAS DINNER ADVENTURE, 7pm Pirates and Christmas? Yes, the combination is sure to entertain. Pirate’s Dinner Adventure, 7600 Beach Blvd., Buena Park, (714) 690-1497 CHANUKAH STORY TIME, 8pm Sponsored by the Hebrew Academy. Huntington Beach Public Library, 7111 Talbert Ave., Huntington Beach, (714) 960-8839 WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTO

  December 10, 2007

• Blow Didnt Blow

  April 12, 2001

• Robert Rodriguez: Movie Maker & Home Cook

  What can't this guy do? The producer, director, writer, composer, editor of Sin City, Desperado, and Planet Terror has made two cooking shorts, produced as extras for his DVDs. There are only two of these "Ten Minute Cooking School" segments in existence, at least on YouTube. On the first -- created in 2004 -- he makes puerco pibil, the dish that Johnny Depp's character lusts after in Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Due the positive reaction this first one elicited, he did a second a little la

  October 31, 2008

• Yo, Ho, Hum

  July 6, 2006

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Notorious,' More

  April 3, 2008

• [Summer Guide] Harry Potter and 39 Other Movies We Can't Wait to See This Season

  June 4, 2009

• Sweeney Todd

  December 4, 2008

• Tear Jerker

  September 4, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Breaking Away,' ' Cry-Baby,' 'Hero' and More

  September 4, 2008

• [Web Exclusive!] Summer Grows Up: The Season of Big-Budget Bangs Uses Its Brain

  May 15, 2008

• Five Tomes on Gonzo Master Hunter S. Thompson for Those Who Can't Get Enough

  February 28, 2008

• Seamen! Right Ahead!

  December 6, 2007

• Director's Cut

  Tim Burton's gorgeously gruesome Sweeney Todd

  December 20, 2007

• The Optimist

  November 20, 2003

• Newport Beach Film Festival: You Got Blurbed

  April 15, 2004

• Game On

  'Roid Rage Returns: Metroid Prime 3 is the best you can get for the Wii

  September 20, 2007

• Salutations

  Charlotte’s Web

  August 9, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the week: Lost in La Mancha

  June 28, 2007

• A Spoonful of Sugar

  Forward into the past at Disneylands Storybook Memories exhibit

  June 28, 2007

• Bootylicious

  Its the end of the world as they know it, and the pirates feel fine

  May 24, 2007

• !Yo Quiero Gold Medals!

  Tiny, undisciplined athletes race for glory

  May 17, 2007

• Aargh!

  July 17, 2003

• New Reviews

  Blood and Chocolate; Catch and Release; Epic Movie; Funny Money; G.I. Jesus; Salaam-e-Ishq; Seraphim Falls

  January 25, 2007

• Farce of a Champion

  OnDVD: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

  January 11, 2007

• Monster Maker

  Stan Winston at Monsters in Motion

  November 30, 2006

• New Reviews

  Flicka
  

  October 19, 2006

• Resurrection

  September 21, 2006

• Special Screenings

  September 14, 2006

• Special Screenings

  July 27, 2006

• Open-Air Cinema

  June 22, 2006

• New Reviews

  March 9, 2006

• Special Screenings

  December 22, 2005

• Skeleton Glee

  Tim Burton taps the pop-Gothic semi-culture for a merrily macabre puppet folktale Corpse Bride

  September 22, 2005

• Attack of the Big Head Floating in the Sky

  August 18, 2005

• More Dahl, Less Depp

  July 14, 2005

• Movies That Aren't Star Wars

  May 19, 2005

• Snark Alert!

  February 24, 2005

• The Other Dr. Strangelove

  November 18, 2004

• Through With Bars

  July 3, 2003

• HotFlix

  June 5, 2003

• Gilliams Folly

  February 6, 2003

• Dazed and Amused

  March 28, 2002

• Damn Dirty Remakes

  May 31, 2001

• We Blow

  April 26, 2001

• Learning From Queer As Folk

  March 15, 2001

• The Life and Crimes of John Dillinger In the Fast and Furious 'Public Enemies'

  July 2, 2009

• FBI Top 10 John Dillinger Myths Misses Biggest One of All

  To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of John Dillinger's crime reign--which ended July 22, 1934, when Public Enemy No. 1 was shot and killed by FBI agents near the Biograph Theater in Chicago, the bureau's press room just issued a list of 10 myths about the outlaw given new life in a Hollywood movie starring Johnny Depp. Among the myths the FBI list counters: that Dillinger was a Robin Hoodesque, romantic outlaw; that he was unarmed when he met his fate; that a stand-in was killed at the Biog

  July 22, 2009

• Dishney: D23 Revelations!

  Paul Hiffmeyer/Disney​D23: It's all over! On September 10-13, the massive D23 Expo converged all things Disney--films, theme parks, merch--into one convenient building. And to be honest? We were kinda bored. Sure, some major announcements were made (stay tuned for that) and we got to see some cool things (Nightmare Before Christmas! In 3D!) but we found it a bit slow for our liking. The Convention Center was split into three floors: The first brought us the main exhibition hall, full of booths

  September 14, 2009

• 2009 Postseason Throwdown: 26 Reasons to Hate Boston, Bostonians and Other Massholes

  Those rubes in Boston probably find this pretty.​UPDATED WITH CORRECTIONS . . . Before Angel fans can truly hate the Boston Red Sox--actually, if 1986 playoffs didn't do it, nothing will--they must first hate the team's fans, the residents of the town surrounding Fenway Park and the town itself. ​(Along those lines, a Halos cap tip to Village Voice Media Vice President of Blog Stirring Bill Jensen for this apt name for annoying Bostonians: Massholes.

  October 8, 2009