Tagged Dome Karukoski

Dome Karukoski’s biopic of J.R.R. Tolkien brings to life the origins of the author’s career, charting the course of a life taken over by imaginary worlds. Shivering in the trenches, a young Tolkien...

In his essay on Richard Eyre’s Iris Murdoch biopic Iris for the Guardian, Martin Amis claims that ‘very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.’ These supposed...

Whatever your expectations of Tom of Finland, it is sure to upend them. While much promotion has placed Touko Laaksonen’s erotic drawings emphatically front and centre, the film’s Touko keeps them...