Sunday, April 12, 2009

Buddhist Festival: Johnny Depp, Ewan

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Johnny Depp and Ewan McGregor films to be shown at Buddhist festival

– They might have been mildly surprised to be invited along, but a Ewan McGregor psychological thriller, a Johnny Depp psychedelic western, and one of the more cultish of recent cult movies, Donnie…

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