Elegance of Coco Avant Chanel (2009): A Stylish Biopic
Coco Avant Chanel (2009), directed by Anne Fontaine, is a captivating biopic that explores the early life of the iconic …
Biopic
The Magnificent Yankee (1950): Unremarkable Biopic of Justice Holmes
Starring Louis Calhern as Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Magnificent Yankee (1950) is a biographical film that lacks the excitement one …
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 ensure …
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 Stanley …
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 royal whose personal …
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, but …
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 imaginative …
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. 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 the …
