BrainCan - biopics

the disaster artist review - a turkey that...

James Franco’s meticulous (extremely careful about details) retelling of the making of ‘the...

the disaster artist review - francos worst film...

James Franco has fun with his entertaining account of the genuine-life cult director who created...

when barack met michelle: the presidential biopic...

Southside With You is the latest in a long line of presidential biopics. But since it is simply an...

miles ahead review - magnificent mooch through the...

Director and star Don Cheadle hits a career high with this passionate and audacious biopic of...

miracles from heaven review - unbelievably preachy...

When the sick daughter of God-fearing folk recovers,the family attribute it to divine intervention....

the great poster riddle: why the lance armstrong...

When inspired film-poster art like The Social Network is created,similarities inevitably follow in...

the idol review - accomplished heartwarmer uses...

This story of a Palestinian wedding singer who finds fame through a TV talent show presses all the...

chocolat review - lavish study of fin de siecle...

Omar Sy,a man with enough charisma to power the city of lights single-handed, beguiles as half of a...

so danny boyle won t be making a bowie biopic -...

I beget a general unease about musical biopics – there’s too often something of the school play...

southside with you review - likable account of the...

This memoir of Barack and Michelle Obama early romance – complete with meet-cute,breakup and...

nina review: problems more than skin deep in...

A ‘blackfaced’ Zoe Saldana is commanding in her portrayal of the tall Priestess of Soul,but the...

mcfarland, usa review - kevin costner brings old...

Costner and Maria Bello star in this Disney-sponsored real-life sports movie from Whale Rider...

the idol review - gaza s got talent

Feelgood biopic of an Arab talent contest winner who becomes a TV starBased on the true story of...

janis: little girl blue - a heartfelt account of a...

With no starry,substantial-budget biopic in sight, Amy Berg’s novel Janis Joplin doc is an...

goodbye christopher robin review - delightful take...

The sunlight is dappled with darkness in the chronicle of AA Milnes eminent creation and its effect...

battle of the sexes review - a winner in straight...

Emma Stone and Steve Carell transport us back to 1973’s famous tennis showdown between Billie Jean...

the man who invented christmas review - bah,...

Dan Stevens plays Charles Dickens in this tin-eared,saccharine, entirely terrible comedian fantasy...

marie curie: the courage of knowledge review - sex...

Soapy biopic of the Nobel prize-winning chemist which focuses more on her spicy personal life than...

new nelson mandela biopic to tell story of south...

Good Morning,Mr Mandela will be based on the memoir by Zelda la Grange, a white Afrikaner who became...

hollywood blacklisted my father: now i m proud...

Dalton Trumbo,who wrote Spartacus and Roman Holiday, was a victim of Hollywood’s anti-communist...

the price of desire review - biopic of architect...

The Irish 20th-century polymath doesnt procure the film treatment she deserves in this borderline...

nina simones estate tells biopic star zoe saldana:...

Release of original trailer and poster for Nina has reignited claims that the Guardians of the...

mary magdalene biopic to be made by kings speech...

British-Australian production company See-Saw Films will follow up Oscar-winning period drama with a...

sid and nancy review - a welcome corrective to...

This 30th anniversary restoration of Alex Cox’s Beckettian masterpiece shows how punk camouflaged...

life after streetcar: tennessee williams biopic to...

Broad Green Pictures buys screen rights to biography detailing Williams’s life,from first Broadway...

good night, and good luck: attack on mccarthyism...

George Clooney’s film of the battle between journalist Edward R Murrow and senator Joseph McCarthy...

race review - racial politics for beginners

A biography of black American athlete Jesse Owens,covering his triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,...

noble review - humanitarian biopic raises...

The acting is impressive in this genuine-life tale of an Irish charity worker but its uncritical...

how three black women helped send john glenn into...

A recent film,Hidden Figures, tells the legend of the maths wizards who Nasa relied onWhen John...

notes on blindness review - complex, imaginative...

This absorbing film soberly reconstructs audio diaries that chart theologian John M Hull’s...

zoe saldana in dark makeup is no way to represent...

The decision to exhaust a lighter-skinned actor in a prosthetic nose only proves that,in Hollywood,...

brian cox to play winston churchill in d day...

Biopic of wartime leader to be written by the Guardian’s Alex von Tunzelmann and will focus on...

manto: the writer who felt the pain of indias...

Saadat Hasan Manto chronicled Bombay life in all its ugly beauty – until sectarian horrors were...

slave rescuer harriet tubman to be subject of...

Tubman made 19 trips to the south,helping to free more than 300 slaves, and was also an armed spy...

oprah winfrey to star in henrietta lacks movie

Media mogul takes role as the daughter of Baltimore woman who unwittingly contributed to vital...

draw on sweet night review - the saucy allure of...

Tony Brittens strained account of Elizabethan madrigalist John Wilbye’s sexual adventures lacks...

in cold blood review - still chilling capote...

Richard Brooks’ film version of Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel about the brutal murder of a...

oliver stone s snowden is no longer an oscar movie

It's the time of year when studios are putting their release dates where their mouths are,and...

all eyez on me trailer: tupac s story gets told on...

On the 20th anniversary of Tupac Shakur's murder,his long-overdue biopic All Eyez on Me is...

rebel wilson denies report she will play adele in...

Comic takes to social media after Skyfall singer pours scorn on Daily Star report during an...

the program: world exclusive clip from stephen...

Watch a clip from the film approximately disgraced cycling champion Lance Armstrong,who was stripped...

start placing your oscar bets: cate blanchett will...

Cate Blanchett is set to play yet another Hollywood legend: The Wrap reports she's been picked...

nina trailer: your internet comments did not stop...

Despite widespread opposition to her casting,Zoe Saldana went ahead and took the money and artistic...

jason priestley is cooking up a phil hartman...

90210 star turned film-helmer Jason Priestley will bring the life of the late,beloved SNL alumnus...

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