Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan is the subject of the biographical documentary It’s So Easy and Other Lies, geared to fans of the 1980s hard rock band.
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With some assistance from Dalton Trumbo himself, Bryan Cranston delivers a phenomenal performance as the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter.
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Michael Fassbender is outstanding in director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s vibrant biopic Steve Jobs. Cast: Kate Winslet.
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Lucille Ball in Easy to Wed. Cate Blanchett to play Lucille Ball: Actress won Oscar for incarnating Ball’s fellow RKO contract player Katharine Hepburn Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett is…
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Howard Hughes movies: The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio. Howard Hughes movies Turner Classic Movies will be showing the Howard Hughes-produced, John Farrow-directed, Baja California-set gangster drama His Kind of Woman,…
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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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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…
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As weirdo billionaire Howard Hughes, Leonardo DiCaprio Is both fully convincing and badly miscast in Martin Scorsese’s overblown biopic The Aviator.
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Starring Liam Neeson as the polemical sex researcher, Bill Condon’s otherwise well-made Kinsey movie biopic suffers from an excess of scruples.
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Valerie Perrine overshadows a badly miscast and painfully unfunny Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse’s problematic 1974 Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny.
Directed by Asif Kapadia, the Amy Winehouse nonfiction movie Amy is an all-around remarkable achievement. Oscar winner.
Featuring Jamie Foxx in a showy but skin-deep characterization, Taylor Hackford’s uninspired Ray Charles biopic Ray aims for the big bucks.
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.