After three hit pirate films with Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski made a risky animated feature in the same way he made his live-action films. He could have become roadkill, but now he's Oscar ...

"Rango" proves that Pixar has no monopoly on super-terrific animation. It's an exuberant, audacious love letter to spaghetti Westerns masquerading as a kiddie cartoon. And it delivers deliciously on ...

Since Paramount’s mock-Western Rango came out — and broke Disney’s near-monopoly on the animated feature Oscar — a decade has swept by like tumbleweed. To mark the anniversary, director Gore Verbinski ...

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.

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.

Don’t ask me to explain it. It’s for Gore Verbinski’s animated film, Rango. All I know is the film features Johnny Depp as “a chameleon with an identity crisis”. I attended the Licensing Expo in Las ...