‘There’s a lot of pleasure to be had in watching the hero of a story struggling upwards against the odds towards a glorious outcome no one knows about yet except us, the audience. ‘
Category: True story/biopic
Drug-fuelled punk hip-hop meets virulent Irish nationalism in this origin story of the Belfast band Kneecap. It’s so weird and wild and transgressive it’s hard to believe it’s essentially true.
In French Version ‘Bernadette’ Legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve plays Bernadette Chirac, wife of Jacques Chirac in this […]
“Like so many children of Holocaust survivors, Lily Brett was haunted by her parent’s suffering, and by the ghosts of the family she would never know – the ones who had perished in the ghettoes or the death camps. She was consumed by a desire to visit the places her parents had lived and to share and perhaps understand what they had endured.”
This movie was made by an Aussie man called Bill Bennett who did the Camino de Santiago in […]
This biographical documentary is one minute under three and a half hours long. I had already ordered an […]
‘This feature-length biographical documentary, made last year to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, charts his progress from child performer in the pre-screen days to becoming, by the age of thirty, the highest-paid writer in the world and a star, as they say, of stage and screen. ‘
Golda was completed and released by August 2023, thus predating the murderous raid by Hamas terrorists on October 7th of that year. If you are of the view that Israel has no right to exist, you might be unsympathetic on the Big Picture, but you’d have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by this depiction of an old woman having to make terrible decisions in the worst crisis she and her country had ever faced.
“My quibble with Bradley Cooper’s work is that Maestro is more a showcase of his ability to do a good Leonard Bernstein impression than it is a serious biopic about this towering figure of 20th century music.”
“Kingsley Ben Adir…absolutely nails Marley’s charisma, his physical gestures, his stage moves and of course that charming accent for which I am a total sucker.”