Black Mass

GENERAL INFORMATION

Release Info: 18 Sept 2015

Director: Scott Cooper
Writer: Mark Mallouk and Jezz Butterworth
Running Time: 122 Minutes

Staring:   Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson and many more!

Rating? R

SPOILERS? NO

REVIEWS

IMDB: 7.7 of 10  / /  Rotten Tomatoes: Critics-76%, Audience- 77%

MY RATING: 9

STORYLINE

The true story of James "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 to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

MY REVIEW

The movie is BASED on facts. There is a documentary out called "Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger" that I suggest you see BEFORE you see the movie. (Click HERE to read my review of the Documentary.)

Excellent. GO SO THIS MOVIE!

What I DID LIKE about this movie:

• Johnny Depp IS amazing in this movie. He truly transformed into James Bulger with the unnerving yellowed smokers tooth and odd blue eyes. He was the star of this movie, hands down. 
• The cinematography and the script are pure gold. I feel like the entire cast made their part in making this a very well done movie.

What I DID NOT LIKE about this movie:

• Characters- Johnny Depp's Whitey Bulger is really the entertainment value here. The remaining characters are really nothing special, no real value to build development for me at all. I could really have cared less for these people. 
• This movie attempts to cover too much ground to smash into a tight 122 minutes.

On a more personal note..... Look who we met today!?!? This is going to be out new little one! His name is a tie currently between Dexter Morgan and Tyrannosaurus Rex. I hope Jinx is okay with this when we bring him home in a few days!!

The Imitation Game

GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: 25 Dec 2014
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Staring:  Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightly, Matthew Goode...
Rating? PG-13
SPOILERS? YES

REVIEWS
IMDB: 8.1 of 10
Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 89% Audience: 92%
MY RATING: 10 of 10! Perfection!

MY REVIEW:
X\As a student of History, I've come across the name Alan Turing on multiple occasions and with each one, I am saddened to hear of the atrocities done to him. {Read about him here at Biography.com} I had to wipe the tears away more than once in this movie.

Back to the movie, it was a masterpiece. The story of the Enigma has been told a few times.. {Enigma-2001, All the Queen's Men- 2001 and U-571-2000}  Alan Turing was brilliant and Benedict Cumberbatch plays him to perfection.

This film speaks to the early days when Prof. Turing was recruited as a last resort to end the war. The movie spends the majority of the time watching him crack the code and build a special relationship with Joan Clarke, played by Keira Knightly. It was in Turing's brilliance that the code was cracked and then the second act hits like a bomb as you see Turing exposed as a homosexual and at the time, it was a crime in England and he was rewarded for his efforts to save England and all of the other Allies with Chemical Castration in lieu of prison. The film ends with what those of us who know about Turing was the end of something amazing.

See this movie. I cannot give a strong enough reccomendation!