biopic
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Race
This new crowd-pleaser biopic of African/American athletic hero Jesse Owens sees his troubled world through rose colored glasses (even the Nazis running the 1936 Olympics are not THAT bad ) as it fore-mostly focuses on his remarkable achievements of winning 4 Gold Medals, with the political ramifications taking second place. The movie starts with the teenage Owens leaving Alabama and his…
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Joy
There is more than a touch of irony that the heroine of David O Russell’s new movie is called Joy as we can see right from the off, that her rather miserable life is far from joyous. It is based on the true life story of Joy Mangano a divorced Long Island single mother who…
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Steve Jobs
There is nothing remotely conventional about the enthralling biopic that director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”) and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (” The Social Network”) have made about Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) the iconic visionary with a major messiah complex. Rather than try and pack in the man’s entire rather manic life in two short hours they focus…
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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,…
