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It is 1993 and 21 year old Lance Armstrong (Ben Foster) is making his debut in the Tour De France. The Sunday Times journalist, David Walsh (Chris O’Dowd) interviews the young Lance over a game of table football. Lance is determined and hugely self-confident, as well as extremely competitive. Chatting with his press colleagues afterwards, …
Oscar and Golden Globe nominee director David O. Russell collaborates anew with this generation’s most admired multi-generational team of incredible actors led by Jennifer Lawerence in the titular role along with Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper in the highly-inspirational story of “Joy” about a woman, a mother who became one of America’s most powerful …
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BLACK MASS (2015) Review Directed by Scott Cooper This is not your usual family-friendly film Johnny Depp and that’s good. Black Mass is gritty, a slowly developed, well-told crime drama with riveting performances from the cast. This is Depp back to serious acting. He’s pretty much the best reason you need to see the film as …
Myth and reality intersect in Warner Bros.’ “Black Mass,” a compelling new big screen thriller that chronicles the rise and fall of one of the most dangerous gangsters in U.S. history. In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) convinced Irish-American mobster James “Whitey” Bulger (Johnny Depp) to become an FBI informant in …
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He received wide acclaim for his performance as murderous scientist Darren Cross aka Yellowjacket in the superhero action adventure hit “Ant-Man.” Now, Corey Stoll’s new screen role couldn’t be more opposite: an incorruptible federal prosecutor in Warner Bros. Pictures’ new gangster thriller, “Black Mass.” Based on a true story, “Black Mass” explores how a deal …
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Three-time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp (“Sweeney Todd” “Finding Neverland,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films) stars as notorious mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in Warner Bros. Pictures’ gangster thriller “Black Mass.” For more than a decade—until his capture in 2011—Boston’s most infamous crime lord, James “Whitey” Bulger, was hunted by the FBI, surpassed only by Osama …
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes the lead role of Philippe Petit in Columbia Pictures’ soaring thriller, “The Walk.” Petit is the only one in history who has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. It’s a role that few other actors could play as memorably. “This was one of …
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Brothers Jimmy “Whitey” Bulger and Billy Bulger grew up in the same house in the South Boston projects and ended up at the top of their respective games, albeit with very different rules. Billy Bulger’s game was politics. College educated, his career trajectory was the polar opposite of his criminal brother’s, taking him all the …
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THE WALK: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (2015) Review Directed by Robert Zemeckis “You cannot lie on stage, the audience will always know what’s inside your heart” A heart-stopping, incredible true story of an ambitious man knocking every obstacle to chase his dream. The Walk is an awe-inspiring tale that uses the right trick to put …
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FELIX MANALO (2015) Review Directed by Joel Lamangan, dgpi Grand production and a captivating performance from Dennis Trillo might be the best reason to see ‘Felix Manalo’ as the story seems quite sure it has enough juice but it really lacks depth from its titular character. Its narrative feels superficial as it did not make Felix …