Tagged biopic

1. The tale of the mouse, the fox and $52.4 billion… The Walt Disney Co. has, at last, concluded a deal to buy a whole lot of 21st Century Fox. Fox, a substantial arm of the Murdoch media empire, is...

1. Fox’s Freddie Mercury biopic under pressure With Bryan Singer fired from Bohemian Rhapsody, the upcoming Freddie Mercury biopic, Twentieth Century Fox have moved fast on a replacement. It has fallen to...

An unauthorised yet very affectionate biopic, England is Mine offers a glimpse into Morrissey’s pre-Smiths years in 1970s Manchester. Surrounded by arguing parents, uninteresting people and dead-end jobs,...

We hate to break it to all the 14-year-old boys and alt-right shitheads out there, but Fight Club is not the best film ever made. Nor is it David Fincher’s best film. The same is true of Se7en, The Social...

While the quality often varies, biopics are a staple of film. There are good biopics, and some are even great, but they often lack the daring, innovation and uniqueness of their subjects. They can too...

1. Adam McKay to direct a biopic about that other tricky Dicky Apparently deciding that the heady days of the (second) Bush era will cheer us all up, Adam McKay has reportedly finished his script about Dick...

It's hard to determine exactly what director, co-writer, and star Don Cheadle thinks of Davis. If he adores him, then that never comes through in his film; and if he has nothing but contempt for him, then...

Whilst Eddie the Eagle may use every cliche in the book, and takes some major poetic licence for narrative's sake (the requirement of a qualifying distance, Hugh Jackman’s entire character... ), Taron...

As another chapter in the evolving period genre, Effie Gray combines the best of Merchant Ivory with the claustrophobia of a modern domestic thriller. Though the film is separated from Gone Girl by time,...

This enthrallingly proficient biopic combines scope with style, provoking attention and excitement through gripping drama and the stirring warfare milieu. Technical scenes belie tedium through Tyldum’s...

From his marble throne Abraham Lincoln looked out across Washington, D.C. 250,000 men, woman and children were gathered before his memorial under the banner of equality and freedom, regardless of the colour of...

“What goes on inside that head?” Michael Fassbender goes one better than Karl Urban’s Judge Dredd in the bizarrely sublime (or is that sublimely bizarre?) Frank. This is a film which, given a chance...

Shuddering footage extrapolated from a cellphone shows a group of black men sitting on a station floor. One is thrown down and a bang stings the air. Fruitvale Station begins with an ending. Michael B. Jordan...

If you expect The Invisible Woman to enlighten you about its eponymous heroine, you might be disappointed. Despite a fine performance by Felicity Jones as Ellen "Nelly" Ternan, the woman who spent thirteen...