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Depp gives a performance reminiscent of his roles in “Blow” or ‘Public Enemies, ‘ with his physical appearance slightly altered and his character that of a terrifying, psychopathic criminal.

While Black Mass is far from being a pack of lies, Cooper was able to craft a visually arresting aesthetic with cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi (the pair previously worked together on Out of the Furnace). But the sneer on his face and his semi-passable Boston accent work, and...

All the [potential] artifice – the Boston accent, all that sort of stuff – it’s just window dressing.

Black Mass tells the story of Whitey Bulger (played by Depp), a convicted murderer and crime boss who acted as an informant for the FBI starting in the 1970’s. Black Mass actually belongs to Joel Edgerton, who plays Federal Bureau of Investigation agent John Connolly.

He wrote: “He [Cumberbatch] is trapped inside an intellectual ragbag of a production by Lyndsey Turner that is full of half-baked ideas”.

Benedict Cumberbatch is a “bloody good Hamlet“, his mum has said. But London’s latest stage sensation is more than a Shakespearean star vehicle.

Benedict Cumberbatch has been described as a “five-star Hamlet” trapped inside a “three-star production”, according to critics. However, his mother, Wanda Ventham, has said that she thinks her son “makes a bloody good Hamlet“.

Cumberbatch, whose Prince of Denmark slouches in a hoodie, listening to gramophone records as he plots his revenge, is Cumberbatch “a blazing, five-star Hamlet trapped in a middling, three-star show”, says Dominic Cavendish in the Daily Telegraph. He also stars on the...

“I’m very, very, very lucky and very excited to be taking on “Doctor Strange” for Marvel”, the 39-year-old said.

Benedict Cumberbatch has begged audience members to stop filming his performances of Hamlet because it’s putting him off his game.

“Most of the work within it is about other dimensions,” Davis said. “And I described it, I think, when I was talking to Marvel as Marvel’s Fantasia, in a way, because it’s so sort of out there and different to everything else that they’ve...

Benedict Cumberbatch has received mixed reviews of his debut as Hamlet, with comments on the performance ranging from “electrifying” to lacking “subtlety”. Or at least so say (most) if the reviews of Cumberbatch’s Hamlet – widely considered to...

Benedict Cumberbatch ” s first preview performance of “Hamlet’ has caused controversy after a spate of reviews were published two weeks ahead of the production’s official press night.

Now, on the heels of the news that the film, directed by Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace), will debut at the Venice Film Festival, comes another trailer that nearly feels like a short film in and of itself.

“Marvel and I have chose to have further conversations…” It’s inescapable. They have their agenda, we have ours, and we’re both moving at an accelerated pace to create magic.