Black Mass (Review)
Like the character it portrays, Black Mass avoids flash and grandeur and joins a long tradition of good-if-not-great gangster movies. American moviemakers have been making gangster movies since the beginning of movies — Raoul Walsh’s 1915 Regeneration may have been the first — and there’s never any shortage of gangster stories, true or fictional. But sometimes filmmakers try to say something important about America or...
Black Mass- Trailer
Today a trailer for Black Mass dropped and it looks gritty. The film stars a whole slew of dudes like Benedict Cumberbatch, Corey Stoll, Joel Egerton, Kevin Bacon and Adam Scott but mainly it stars Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger, a famed gangster who’s recently been getting a lot of attention. Another big selling point aside from that cast is Depp’s receding hairline which, between you and me, he’s probably had in real life for the past...