biopic
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Darkest Hour
The American Academy of Motion Pictures may want to think about adding another category for the Oscars this year for best prosthetics. Following hot on the heels of Woody Harrelson’s latex face as LBJ, we now have Gary Oldman’s face totally submerged under Kazuhiro Tsuji’s masterful make up as Winston Churchill. Whatever happened to the…
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LBJ
When you can get beyond staring at all the effort the prosthetic team have made to transform Woody Harrelson into looking like the leathery Lyndon B Johnson, then you can enjoy the fun that Harrelson has with his hammy over-the-top performance that is actually quite a joy to watch. This new engrossing biopic on the…
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Battle of The Sexes
Filmmaking duo Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris who helmed the Oscar winning ‘Little Miss Sunshine‘ are back behind the cameras for another real-crowd pleaser of a movie that tackles the age old problem of parity between men and women. In this story, very much steeped in real life, the tale is not so much about the enormous…
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Barbara : an iconic French Diva
queerguru’s Parisian correspondent has just sent us news about a stunning biopic that is the latest sensation in movie theaters over there. Barbara is the story of the late famous chanteuse whose songs included “L’Aigle noir” which sold 1 million copies in just 12 hours in the 1960’s. She cut a very dramatic figure, a tall…
