Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early ’60s and published, under Johnny Depp’s auspices, more than three decades later. A ...

Johnny Depp's "The Rum Diary" has for too long now been a white whale for movie fans--but the hunt is almost over, Ahab, as a trailer has finally arrived. Based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson, ...

Temper you excitement for Johnny Depp ditching the pirate garb long enough to go gonzo again, because "The Rum Diary," like the novel from which it's adapted, falls well short. It's sad to think ...

Johnny Depp spent more than 15 years building exactly the kind of cinematic résumé that keeps actors from being movie stars, roles featuring weird hair and silly voices. Then he changed exactly ...

Johnny Depp admits that he might not have been quite the hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson was, he did try his hand at fire-breathing. “I did spew a little fire when I was a youth,” chuckles Depp, who ...

Poor Johnny Depp can never get it quite right when it comes to Hunter S. Thompson material. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a critical flop (albeit a cult favorite) and Depp’s latest attempt to ...

Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary is what the Brits might call a rum movie — an oddly inoffensive piece and a personal project for its disconcertingly unengaged star Johnny Depp.

Johnny Depp slides back into his Hunter S Thompson persona for this adaptation of the great writer's first, long-unpublished novel, about a journalist in Puerto Rico who goes up against a scheming ...

Although, for me, watching this movie with my wife might be mildly uncomfortable due to her shameless, undying crush on Johnny Depp, it’s still an adaptation of a Hunter S. Thompson novel with a great ...