“There’s no place for the gunslinger anymore. We’re civilized now.” These words are spoken by the mayor of the town of Dirt to Rango, the town’s sheriff and film’s namesake (voiced by Johnny Depp).

A mariachi band consisting of owls. A western frontier town consisting of the remains of leftover junk. And to top it all off, a chameleon who thinks he’s Clint Eastwood. Can Gore Verbinski, director ...

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, ...

The previews for "Rango" were amusing and intriguing. The movie itself was hysterical, wonderful and instilled with a deep message. I think every adult in the theater was filled with laughter as the ...

The dusty cards of the Old West are reshuffled into a winning hand in “Rango,” a madly clever animated sagebrush saga with style and wit to burn. Reconfiguring the spaghetti Western into a fusilli con ...

Whose idea was it to turn those latter-day Caribbean pirates Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and (director) Gore Verbinski loose on a cartoon, ostensibly for kids? Because "Rango" requires some explanation.