The 60s are recalled as a time of protest, anger, frenetic activity. But movies, always a bit behind the times, were focused back then on inner rebellion, the slouch of regret. It was when anguish got up from the analyst’s couch and sidled onto the big screen. You can savor these DVDs for the vicarious [...]
With Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest still raking in the doubloons, it’s time to give Depp his due. From Edward Scissorhands to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, here’s a film-by-film breakdown of a remarkable career.
1984
A Nightmare on Elm Street
$25.5 million
1985
Private Resort
$0.3 million
1986
Platoon
$138 million
1990
Cry-Baby
$8.3 million
1990
Edward Scissorhands
$56.4 million
1991
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
$34.9 million
1993
Benny & Joon
$23.3 [...]
John C. Reilly’s Must List
The Talladega star and sometimes musician likes his guitarists with pluck and his heroes Ford-tough.
Harrison Ford The man who plays Jack Ryan gets Reilly’s approval ”for pure dependability.”
‘Bringing It All Back Home’ 1965 ”It’s just a really exciting moment in the career of one of the most exciting musicians ever. Bob [...]
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRESomething went gloriously awry when Elia Kazan staged Tennessee Williams’ poetic parable of antique Southern illusions colliding with postwar urban brutishness. The young Marlon Brando made Stanley Kowalski a manifesto for sexual menace that defines American acting to this day. The 1951 film version, with Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois, restores equilibrium [...]