dramatized real-life
Greed : a satirical comedy about a story that in reality is far from funny.
Michael Winterbottom’s latest movie is a fast-paced satirical comedy about a story that in reality is far from funny. It’s the very skimpily veiled story of notorious Brit billionaire businessman Sir Philip Green who the British Parliament named as ‘the unacceptable face of capitalism’. Green used nefarious means to buy Topshop and half a…
Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool
When we first glance the Hollywood film star Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) the year is 1981 and her movie career has been well and truly over for a couple of decades. Wth her finances well drained she has had to resorted to taking any acting jobs wherever she can, and is currently appearing in ‘The…
My Friend Dahmer
This is the true story of a year in the life of Jeffery Dahmer when he was a High School Senior and before he became a notorious cannabalistic gay serial killer. It is based on the graphic novel by one of Dahmer’s classmates John Backderf who actually narrowly escaped being one of Dahmer’s first…
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…