"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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Rango," starring Johnny Depp as the voice of a pet chameleon who tries to bring law and order to a town in the Wild West, won the Oscar for best animated feature film on ...

Austin Allison is an Animation Feature Writer for Collider. He is also an illustator, avid cartoon watcher, and occasional singer. His karaoke favorites include singing Rainbow Connection as Kermit ...

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.

After a decade-long absence from the big screen, visionary director Gore Verbinski has returned with the new science fiction adventure Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. With that film set to be released ...