UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 11th December to Sunday 13th December 2015… The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 has topped the UK box office for the fourth week in a row, becoming the first film since Les Miserables in February 2013 to do so. Mockingjay’s £1.29 million haul is […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 makes in three in a row at the top of the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 4th December to Sunday 6th December 2015… The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 made it three weeks in a row at the top of the UK box office this past week, leading an unchanged top four with a third weekend haul of £2,240,723 to […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 fends off The Good Dinosaur at the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 27th November to Sunday 29th November 2015… The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 held firm at the top of the UK box office in its second weekend, adding a further £4.53 million to push its haul to £19.32 million after eleven days. Five […]
Movie Review – Black Mass (2015)
Black Mass, 2015. Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Edgerton, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Peter Sarsgaard and Corey Stoll. SYNOPSIS: The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant […]
29th Leeds International Film Festival Review – Black Mass (2015)
Black Mass, 2015. Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Cochrane, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Corey Stoll, Peter Sarsgaard and Dakota Johnson. SYNOPSIS: The true story of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, the notorious gangster who used his status as a FBI informant under John Connolly to take over South Boston. In Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, there is no protagonist. […]
29th Leeds International Film Festival Review – Black Mass (2015)
Black Mass, 2015. Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Cochrane, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Corey Stoll, Peter Sarsgaard and Dakota Johnson. SYNOPSIS: The true story of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, the notorious gangster who used his status as a FBI informant under John Connolly to take over South Boston. Black Mass is a very strange film. It’s a […]
59th BFI London Film Festival Review – Black Mass (2015)
Black Mass, 2015 Directed by Scott Cooper Starring Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Cochrane, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Corey Stoll, Peter Sarsgaard and Dakota Johnson. SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Black Mass charts the rise in power of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, beginning in Boston in 1975. His relationship with his Mother and Brother, his murderous Winter Hill gang and his connection to […]
Movie Review – Black Mass (2015)
Black Mass, 2015. Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard, Adam Scott, Corey Stoll and Kevin Bacon. SYNOPSIS: The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant […]
Scott Cooper confirms that Sienna Miller has been cut out of Black Mass
Black Mass director Scott Cooper revealed during a recent interview with The Boston Globe that actress Sienna Miller has been cut out of the upcoming Whitey Bulger biopic Black Mass. Cooper praised Miller’s performance in the film, calling her work alongside Johnny Depp’s Bulger “fantastic,” but had his reasons for removing her from the final cut. […]
12 Films We’d Love to See at This Year’s London Film Festival
With the full line-up for this year’s 59th BFI London Film Festival set to be unveiled on Tuesday, September 1st, Senior Staff Writer Scott Davis looks ahead to the festival with some of the films that may be part of the extensive programme. We’ve already had confirmation that Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep, […]
