Friday, July 5, 2024
20.1 C
London

Tag: Biopic

The Theory of Everything (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

My respect for Stephen Hawking is not small. That respect, for both his intellectual achievements and his struggles to...

The Imitation Game (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Here there be spoilers:In the early ‘50s, Detective Robert Nock (Rory Kinnear) is called to the house of eccentric...

Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A resurgence of peak form by Michael Almereyda after his wobbly return to Shakespeare with Cymbeline (2014), Experimenter: The...

The King’s Speech (2010) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

It's starting to feel like every year we get a high class oh-so-British film about some hapless...

W. (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

I blow hot and cold on Oliver Stone, admiring his capacity to orchestrate images and actors with electric fervour,...

Coco Avant Chanel (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Although in form and intent very much Biopic 101, Coco Avant Chanel, directed Anne Fontaine, maker of the interesting...

Conquest (1937) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

From the moment an opening title tells us that “This is a story of an historic love - the...

Il Divo (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Breakneck-paced exploration of a murk-shrouded subject – contemporary Italian politics, specifically the gnomic eminence gris that is Giulio Andreotti....

Julie & Julia (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A lumpy mix of Nora Ephron’s usual style of romantic-comedy, biopic, and that popular brand of pseudo-personal journalism that...

Cadillac Records (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

More a mosaic of a time and place than a bio-pic, and perhaps all the better for it, Cadillac...

Madame Curie (1943) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Happy recollections of a movie slightly disappointed: distinctly overlong and terribly mushy in its first third, Curie takes a...

The Password Is Courage (1962) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

.Predating, anticipating, and in some ways outdoing The Great Escape, for both detail and comic value extracted from the...