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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...

Trailer There is no doubt that this is a very well-acted film. The choices of characters were perfect and each did their jobs well, most especially Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins, who play non-biological sisters(Jasmine and Ginger were both adopted by their parents).   Among the men, I think I like Peter Skargaard's acting the best.  Alec Baldwin was also good, but he's too used (or typecast) to playing that kind of role.    Charlie Tahan, who plays the young Danny, was exceptional.  Maybe I'm just biased because I've already gotten fond of him because of his other movies. I don't know why Woody Allen decided to end it that way , but I guess it worked because the movie was not a flop.  It was even a box office success. I know a lot of people like Jasmine.  Most of the time, when a person who had it all almost all of his or her life loses everything (or almost everything),  he or she could not cope.  He or she would ha...