biopic
The Dancer
When you see the spectacular and rather breathtaking dancing scenes in this movie you can understand why writer/director Stéphanie Di Giusto chose to make her very first feature film very loosely based on Loie Fuller the great French/American dancer of the Belle Époque period. However Di Gusto takes great liberties with telling the dancer’s story and…
Rules Don’t Apply
It’s been 15 years since Hollywood legend Warren Beatty was last seen on our screens, and a further 3 years since he was also in the directors chair too. Now he is back with a passion project of his that he has been evidently gestating for decades, so much so that is in fact he…
The Man Who Knew Infinity
This well-meaning biopic about a lowly Indian Clerk who is a self-taught maths genius who at the beginning of the last century claimed he could “give meaning to negative values of the gamma function” a major feat that had baffled the most learned British professors for decades, sadly does not add up to much. It is…
I Saw The Light
There is only one good reason (well, maybe two) to sit through the long drawn out and rather tedious biopic of the very short life of singer/songwriter Hank Williams, and that is because of its star Tim Hiddleston. He puts in a powerhouse of a performance and is nothing less than magnetic in this overly long…
