The Rum Diary is veteran English writer-director Bruce Robinson's wild and wonderful first new feature in twenty years (!), as well as his explosive adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's very early, long-unpublished novel.

The Rum Diary is like a lengthy drinking binge of a movie: It's fun for a while, seems to offer more meaning than it actually does -- and leaves you wishing it hadn't ended so badly.

While Johnny Depp may have been remembering his friend this past week, his performance in the buzzed-about "The Rum Diary" is perhaps the most fitting...

LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp vividly recalls the first time he met Hunter S. Thompson, sparks flying as the author parted a bar crowd with a cattle...

In 1998, Johnny Depp found a manuscript amongst a pile of old artifacts he was searching through while visiting the home of his good friend Hunter S. ...

"Now all of this may look like some crazed hallucination," Johnny Depp, as Hunter S. Thompson stand-in Paul Kemp, says, "but it's all true... I think....

One of Johnny Depp's most beloved (if by a cult audience) roles came in the adaptation of his friend Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing In Las Ve...