Interview

Composer

Composer Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL) on Black Mass

Dutch composer Tom Holkenborg, also known as Junkie XL, is one of the most prolific film composers working today, and one of the most impressively wide-ranging. He recently scored George Miller's wildly imaginative Mad Max: Fury Road, and will be the man behind the mixer on the highly anticipated films Deadpool and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. His most recent effort was Scott ...

By  |  October 13, 2015

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Actor

Black Mass & Johnny Depp’s Many Film Transformations Recalls his Idol

With Black Mass opening today, audiences will once again witness Johnny Depp completely transform himself into his newest character, the terrifying and notorious Boston gangster Whitely Bulger. Depp is nearly unrecognizable as this killer with a devil’s smile, and to help him achieve this startling transformation, the actor turned to longtime make-up artist Joel Harlow ...

By  |  September 18, 2015

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Actor Director

Wicked Good: Black Mass, Spotlight & 7 Killer Boston Films

This movie season it’s the city of Boston that’s a major scene stealer What are the signs that we’re shifting out of sluggish summer into tweedy autumn? Changing leaves, cool nights and, of course, early Oscar forecasting. Coming straight out of the festival circuit two films—Black Mass and Spotlight—are attracting awards chatter that’s threatening to ...

By  |  September 14, 2015

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Actor Director

Who Freaks You Out More: these Grandparents, these Aliens, or Johnny Depp?

Three new trailers with very different sources of extreme tension. So the question we pose to you today is this; who would you rather be trapped in a house with less, the grandparents from M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming The Visit, Johnny Depp’s Whitey Bulger from the upcoming Black Mass, or whatever the hell those things are in ...

By  |  April 28, 2015