Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
It is tragic how good Chadwick Boseman is in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a 2020 drama based on the eponymous “Mother of the Blues” (Viola Davis) who became one of […]
Tag Archives: biopic
Bombshell
Bombshell is a #MeToo movie from the director of Meet the Fockers. Thank you for reading my review. This fictionalised exposé does for the Fox News sexual harassment scandal what The […]
Jazz Odyssey: Bird
This is a 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker (Forest Whitaker) directed by one-liner comedian and arch nemesis of Tim Westwood, Clint Eastwood. Bird fits in the Elephant Man/Gandhi category of […]
Dolemite Is My Name
By this point Snoop Dogg is Netflix’s biggest sub-category, more populous even than hitman comedies or cannabis cookery shows (obviously there is overlap). Between his movie cameos, album appearances and […]
Loving Vincent
Armand (Douglas Booth), the son of Vincent Van Gogh’s postman (Chris O’Dowd) is asked to deliver one final, posthumous letter to Vincent’s beloved brother Theo. After hearing Theo has also […]
Official Secrets
This is the true story of GCHQ whistle-blower Katharine Gun (Keira Knightly) who leaked a 2003 memo detailing the US government’s plan to eavesdrop on UN Security Council members in […]
Copying Beethoven
A musical nun, Anna (Diane Kruger), gets a job as a copyist for Ludwig van Beethoven (Ed Harris) but he’s a tough boss, owing to his messy lifestyle, unpleasant habits […]
Lincoln
In January 1865 Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day Lewis) seeks to pass the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution in order to prohibit slavery before the end of the Civil […]
Judy
Renée Zellweger continues her campaign against London as Judy Garland, whose struggles with substance abuse and custody battles bring her to England in 1969, in the feelbad romp of the […]
Rocketman
In this biographical musical from the producer of Gnomeo and Juliet, Taron Egerton takes centre stage as the Rocketman himself, Elton John, not to be confused with Rocket Raccoon or […]
