Christian Bale’s latest film Hostiles may have just booked him a spot among this year’s Best Actor Oscar contenders. Hostiles, a film directed by Scott Cooper (Black Mass), has recently been screened at the Telluride Film Festival where Bale was also being honoured for his career. Hostiles is a bleak western about a 19th-century captain […]
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, 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. […]
Christian Bale reuniting with director Scott Cooper for Hostiles
Following his departure from Ferrari, Christian Bale has lined up his next project, with Variety reporting that he’s set to reunite with Out of the Furnace director Scott Cooper for the Western film Hostiles. Hostiles takes place in 1892 and “tells the story of a legendary Army captain, who agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne […]
Black Mass director Scott Cooper in talks for spy thriller White Knight
It looks like Black Mass director Scott Cooper may have lined up his next project, with Deadline revealing that he’s in talks with Warner Bros. about directing the spy thriller White Knight, as well as rewriting the original script from Bill Dubuque (The Judge). White Knight follows a disgraced Secret Service agent who takes a job […]
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 in talks to direct American Wolf
According to The Wrap, Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnance, Black Mass) is in talks to direct American Wolf for Warner Bros., Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Kevin McCormick’s Langley Park. American Wolf is based on source material from Nate Blakeslee, an editor at Texas Monthly, and tells the story of “a hunter in Yellowstone […]
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. […]
