biopic
Carlotta
When Richard Bryon’s mother turns up to take him home with her and her new husband to their house in Balmain a working class suburb of Sydney Australia she puts on her act of being the world’s best parent even though she had abandoned him with his ‘Aunt Hazel’ for the past 10 years. John,…
Dane DeHaan as the next James Dean
When we reviewed the star studded ‘Kill Your Darlings’ movie about the Beats Generation two years ago we wrote ‘young Dane DeHaan playing the extrovert Carr with a career defining performance, stole every scene he was in.’ Since then DeHaan has been in great demand from ‘The Devils Knot’ to ‘The Amazing Spiderman’ etc., and he…
Cate says I Love Lucy
Some movie castings are so perfect it’s just a wonder that no-one has thought of them before. Like the announcement made today that Cate Blanchett is to play Lucille Ball in a biopic produced by her two children Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jnr. The script to be written by Aaron Sorkin (West Wing)…
Set Fire To The Stars
‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ wrote the celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas who took his own words literally as he drank himself to death aged just 39. Despite acquiring a reputation, which he encouraged, as a ‘roistering, drunken and doomed poet’ he was still invited by a young literary critic and aspiring…
