The Professor (2018)
Johnny Depp stars as an English professor for a prestigious New England college named Richard Brown who learns he has late-stage lung cancer and probably only six months to live without treatment, which he...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street is classic horror of the 1980s, and a welcome departure from the schlock that the other slasher movie franchises, Friday the 13th and Halloween, had become. Writer-director Wes Craven (Scream, Scream 2) adds humor...
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
2010’s Alice in Wonderland wasn’t really a great film, but it did rake in a hefty billion dollars from the worldwide box office, so, naturally, that’s going to green-light a sequel just about every time. Six...
Dark Shadows (2012)
Johnny Depp (On Stranger Tides, The Tourist) stars as 18th Century Maine fishing industrialist Barnabas Collins, who unwittingly becomes the object of vengeance when he betrays his servant Angelique Bouchard (Green, The Golden Compass), who turns...
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Director Tim Burton teams up with Disney scribe Linda Woolverton in a visual tour-de-force telling of the classic story, which combines elements of the two Lewis Carroll allegories, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its...
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Johnny Depp (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Arizona Dream) stars as Edward, a synthetic representation of a young man created by a bizarre inventor who died shortly before his transformation from mechanical construct to organic...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Although it’s not likely to replace the original movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, in the minds and hearts of many viewers, the good news is that Tim Burton’s version of the Roald Dahl classic book...
Finding Neverland (2004)
A heavily sentimental drama, which generally means that it will deeply affect some while missing other viewers altogether, Finding Neverland seeks to tell the tale of what inspired playwright J.M. Barrie to pen “Peter Pan”. Many...
Secret Window (2004)
Note: This review doesn’t contain any overt spoilers, but film savvy readers may pick up on some things they may not want to know. Skip the next paragraph if you don’t want to take...
Dead Man (1995)
Jim Jarmusch’s films are a definite acquired taste, speaking volumes to a small, but very loyal following of fans, while seeming too surreal and quirky to most everyone else. My personal feeling towards his...