Maria is the third and final film in Pablo Larraín’s “Ladies with Heels” trilogy, a series of films about important 20th Century women. This film focuses on the opera singer Maria Callas during the last week of her life. It is 1977, and Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie) lives in Paris. It has been four and a […]
Tag: biopic
The Apprentice Review
Donald Trump is one of the most divisive public figures in the world with his early real estate career and his relationship with the controversial lawyer Roy Cohn serving as the subject of the biopic The Apprentice. The year is 1973, Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan) is the son of real estate developer Fred Trump (Martin […]
Lee Review
Lee Miller was a war photographer who worked for Vogue during the Second World War. Her story gets put to screen with Kate Winslet starring as this remarkable woman and serving as one of the film’s producers. In 1938, Lee Miller was an ex-model and socialite who was a part of the artistic scene in […]
Back to Black Review
Amy Winehouse joins the likes of Johnny Cash, Freddie Mercury, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston as a member of the musical biopic club. Back to Black looks at her artistic process, troubled relationship, and addiction issues. Amy Winehouse (Marisa Abela) is an emerging artist who is signed up by 19 Management and Island Records. When her […]
The Iron Claw Review
The Iron Claw sees Sean Durkin tackle the world of professional wrestling with his biopic about the Von Erich family as it explores the hardships and tragedies they suffered. The Von Erichs is a family of wrestlers who are dominated by the family patriarch Fritz (Holt McCallany). He attempts to instill a competitive spirit amongst his […]
BlackBerry Review
BlackBerry is a Canadian comedy-drama about one of Canada’s most famous companies and shows the rise and fall of BlackBerry. In 1996 Research in Motion (RIM) was a struggling tech company in Waterloo, Ontario. The company founders, Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and Doug Fregin (Matt Johnson) pitch their revolutionary invention, the Pocket Link, to Jim Balsillie […]
Oppenheimer Review
Movie fans always anticipate Christopher Nolan’s films. He moves into the world of biopics with his historical epic about J. Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer follows the life and career of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), from 1926 to 1954. This includes his student days in Cambridge and travelling around Europe to learn from the best physicists, teaching […]
I Wanna Dance With Somebody Review
In recent years there have been many biopics about major musicians. Whitney Houston is the latest musician to get this treatment with I Wanna Dance with Somebody. I Wanna Dance With Somebody chronicles the life and career of Whitney Houston (Naomi Ackie). During her career Houston became one of the most popular musicians of her time, being called […]
She Said Review
The exposure of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse and his conviction shook Hollywood to its core. The story about how the New York Times exposed the powerful movie mogul gets told in She’s Said. Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) is a journalist at the New York Times who receives a tip that some famous actresses in Hollywood had been […]
Elvis Review
This weekend saw the release of eccentric Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, a biopic epic about the troubled life of the king of rock n’ roll. Oh boy, this is a whole lot of movie. Luhrmann and company have stuffed an almost overwhelming amount of sequins and style into every frame of this film, and […]