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Cinema 1 2nd Floor, CommerCenter, Commerce Avenue corner East Asia Drive, Filinvest City, Alabang, Muntinlupa The movie is mostly set in Boston and Boston is in Mass achusetts.  Whitey Bulger, an Echelon informant, and his cohorts sold their souls to the devil. The film is based on a non-fiction account of the FBI's dealings with Bulger written by former  Boston Globe  reporters Dick Lehr and Gerald O'Neill and titled  Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal . ( source ) After more than a month of waiting, finally, I've been able to watch Johnny Depp's latest movie called BLACK MASS.  There was no dull moment, but there were a lot of changes of emotions: scared, happy, thrilled, frightened, excited, scared again, et cetera, et cetera, then relieved.  Relieved?  Why so?  Well, when true to life characters are being portrayed by actors and you momentarily forget you are just watching a movie, it would seem li...

Taking Chance (imdb) Wikipedia LtCol Mike Strobl ( Kevin Bacon ): If I'm not over there, what am I? Those guys, guys like Chance... they're Marines. Charlie Fitts ( Tom Aldredge ): And you think you're not? Want to be with your family every night - you think you have to justify that? You'd better stop right there, sir. You've brought Chance home. You're his witness now. Without a witness, they just disappear. Directed by Ross Katz Written by LtCol Michael Strobl and Ross Katz  I had a chance  of watching this film today because I am ill.  When I woke up with a fever, I started crying.  I guess it's because I miss someone terribly that  I couldn't do my work, and I could not even go out with my folks. When I was feeling a tad better, I started channel surfing.  Thank goodness, TAKING CHANCE was about to start. Taking Chance? Huh?  For some darn reason, I didn't change the channel.  I guess I was curious, and thankfully, this ti...