It’s So Easy and Other Lies (movie 2016) review: Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan is the subject of the biographical documentary geared to fans.
Biopics
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Trumbo (movie 2015) review: Bryan Cranston delivers a phenomenal performance as the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
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Steve Jobs (movie 2015) review: Michael Fassbender is outstanding in Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin’s vigorous biopic. Kate Winslet costars.
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Cate Blanchett as Lucille Ball: Oscar Winner Aaron Sorkin to Write Screenplay. Good idea? Blanchett won Oscar for playing Katharine Hepburn.
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Howard Hughes Movies: From Leonardo DiCaprio to (almost) Jim Carrey plus Hell’s Angels, Katharine Hepburn and wrecking RKO.
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Sal Mineo biopic actor Val Lauren. James Franco has cast Val Lauren in Sal, Franco’s planned biopic of two-time Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Sal Mineo, according to The Hollywood…
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The Runaways with Dakota Fanning. The Runaways reviews: Dakota Fanning & Kristen Stewart mostly well received Twilight Saga star Kristen Stewart’s role in The Runaways is actually subordinate to that…
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Ray (movie 2004) review: Featuring Jamie Foxx in a showy but skin-deep characterization, Taylor Hackford’s uninspired Ray Charles biopic aims for the big bucks.
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The Aviator (movie 2004) review: As weirdo billionaire Howard Hughes, Leonardo DiCaprio Is both fully convincing and badly miscast in Martin Scorsese’s overblown biopic.
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Kinsey (movie 2004) review: Starring Liam Neeson as the polemical sex researcher, Bill Condon’s otherwise well-made biopic suffers from an excess of scruples. Laura Linney costars.
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The Alfred Kinsey scale of facts vs fiction: The life of the revolutionary and contentious American sex researcher vs Bill Condon’s well-regarded but sanitized 2004 film.
Amy (movie 2015) review: Asif Kapadia’s remarkable Amy Winehouse documentary chronicles the rise and fall of the tragic singer.
Gérard Depardieu as Alexandre Dumas (top); the real “black” Alexandre Dumas (bottom). Gérard Depardieu, one of the greatest icons of French cinema, has dismissed claims that he has been miscast…
Lenny (movie 1974) review: Valerie Perrine overshadows a miscast and painfully unfunny Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse’s unsatisfying biopic of polemical comedian Lenny Bruce.