Posts Tagged ‘biography’

Toast (2010)

Toast (2010)
A life through food, and its absence Toast draws a surprisingly grim picture of a childhood with a droll, light touch, a combination that seems dryly English and may not go down well with the American audience. In fact US reviews of this film, adapted from a memoir, haven’t been very favorable,...
April 23rd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

J. Edgar (2011)

J. Edgar (2011)
Open hate, repressed love At the end of Clint Eastwood’s biopic about J. Edgar Hoover (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), an aged Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer) labors into a dark bedroom full of curios and then slumps down and weeps over the swollen white albatross of a body. It’s his longtime companion,...
January 16th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Devil’s Double (2011)

The Devil’s Double (2011)
Uday Hussein (Dominic Cooper) led a life of immoral excesses, gaining notoriety across the world for his savage tantrums and acts of causal barbarity. The eldest son of Saddam, Uday’s notion of power was clearly lent to him by an empire he didn’t understand, and even a developed intellectual...
January 7th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Moneyball (2011)

Moneyball (2011)
Levels of the game It’s a tricky proposition to try to build up a drama out of statistics, even when that drama centers on big league baseball. But Bennett Milller gets away with it, thanks to Aaron Sorkin and Stephen Zaillian, who wrote the screenplay, and Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, who play the...
November 21st, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Angels of Evil (2010)

Angels of Evil (2010)
Angels of Evil is the biographical true story of Italy’s most notorious gangster and Milanese bank robber, Renato Vallanzasca. The movie starts in 1981 in a maximum security prison, where Renato Vallanzasca (Kim Rossi Stuart) rules the roost. He strolls around his dirty prison cell in his pants and...
October 25th, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Holy Rollers (2010)

Holy Rollers (2010)
Holy Rollers is a biographical crime drama set in Brooklyn and inspired by true events. A young Orthodox Jew is enticed into the world of drug smuggling by his neighbour, who has connections with an Israeli drug lord. Jesse Eisenberg plays Sam Gold, a young Hasidic Jew living in a Jewish community in...
October 23rd, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More

The Big Blue (1988)

The Big Blue (1988)
This is one review I need to get off my chest. Although, being a sci-fi fan, I generally tend to be more entertained by features like The Fifth Element (1997), I must even so pronounce The Big Blue to be Luc Besson’s best movie. It is masterfully directed in every detail, and tells a completely [...]
October 6th, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More

The Colour of Pomegranates (1968)

The Colour of Pomegranates (1968)
“Medieval Armenian poetry is still one of the most remarkable victories of the human spirit known in the annals of the entire world” Valery Brivsov Sergei Parajanov’s seminal classic, The Colour of Pomegranates, finally becomes available for UK audiences to buy after years of only being accessible...
August 24th, 2011 | DVD Reviews, Feature | Read More

Project Nim (2011)

Project Nim (2011)
Arriving conveniently the same weekend as Rise of the Planet of the Apes (a film with a strong social warning about our inherent desire to advance scientifically with little regard for the natural repercussions) Project Nim successfully amalgamates a mixture of talking head segments, archived footage,...
August 9th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Devil’s Double (2011)

The Devil’s Double (2011)
Based on a true story of opulence, greed and unequivocal malevolence, The Devil’s Double retells the account of Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper) the real life ‘fiday’ – or body double – to Saddam Hussein’s notoriously wayward son Uday Hussain (also Dominic Cooper). The moment the film’s overly...
August 9th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
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