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29th Leeds International Film Festival Review – Black Mass (2015)

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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)

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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 […]

Jeff Nichols to direct Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga in Loving

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Deadline has revealed details the latest project from Mud and Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols, which is set for release in 2016. The acclaimed director is to direct Loving, a new drama that Nichols has written himself, and is set to start filming in September. Joel Edgerton (Exodus: Gods and Kings) and Ruth Negga (World […]

Second Opinion – Midnight Special (2016)

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Midnight Special, 2016. Directed by Jeff Nichols Starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver and Jaeden Lieberher. SYNOPSIS: A sci-fi thriller exploring the government’s interest in the power a kidnapped boy possesses, and his journey that reconnects him with his father. Jeff Nichols’ latest film, Midnight Special, delves into territory unfamiliar to the director, […]

Movie Review – Midnight Special (2016)

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Midnight Special, 2016. Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols. Starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sean Bridgers, Bill Camp, Paul Sparks, and Sam Shepard. SYNOPSIS: A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers. Stephen King once wrote “Nightmares exist outside of […]

Movie Review – It Comes At Night (2017)

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It Comes At Night, 2017. Directed by Trey Edward Shults. Starring Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbot, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. SYNOPSIS: A small family – father, mother and teenage son – live in what appears to be an abandoned house.  The windows are boarded up and, from the outside, there’s little sign […]

Movie Review – Black Mass (2015)

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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)

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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. […]

Joel Edgerton to join Jennifer Lawrence in spy thriller Red Sparrow

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Joel Edgerton has entered talks with 20th Century Fox to join Jennifer Lawrence in the upcoming spy thriller Red Sparrow, which is being directed by Lawrence’s Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence. Red Sparrow will take place in modern-day Russia, with Lawrence playing Dominika Egorova, a state intelligence officer coerced into becoming a ‘Sparrow’, a trained […]

Movie Review – Black Mass (2015)

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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 […]