Tag: Johnny Depp
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My Worst Films of 2018.
A year of countless trips to the cinema involves many a disappointment, with 2018 proving no less cinematically woeful than others. This year, duds were released not only on the big screen but on VOD platforms too. Now, audiences have the (dis)pleasure of being bored to death, angered and let down by new releases from…
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
This review must begin with a confession: I am a Potter-head; an old school one at that. Over the last 18 years I have revisited all 7 books and 8 films multiple times and spent many a car journey and restless night with Stephen Fry perfectly delivering each story from cassette (later CD) to my…
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Black Mass.
Telling the story of the criminal rise of Boston kingpin James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, Black Mass struggles to ever really rise off of the ground. Following his movements and progressions within the South Boston underworld, we spend two decades with Bulger and the rest of the Winter Hill Gang. Everything is loosely told through the recollections of…
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Hurry Up, Johnny.
I recently got round to watching ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape‘, a moving tale of one young man’s inner struggles with himself, the death of his father, his dysfunctional family and the pressures they put on him. Johnny Depp plays Gilbert and drives the film and its story forward. The simple tale is carried by Depp…
Hannah McHaffie 