Another musician biopic. This one about beginnings and endings. A young man arrives in New York City in the 1960s to meet his musical heroes. His journey is influenced and moulded by them, but this prodigy cannot be contained for long. A quick recovery from director James Mangold (Ford Vs Ferrari, Logan) since the disastrous…
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Review: Better Man
Intentionally, the film is far more affecting that appearances might suggest. A dramatization following the personal story of British pop singer Robbie Williams, his meteoric highs and crashing lows. Directed by Michael Gracey (2017’s The Greatest Showman) and starring Kate Mulvany, Raechelle Banno, Steve Pemberton, and of course… Robbie Williams, the film turned heads for…
Review: The Disaster Artist
More of a celebration of what the cult phenomenon now is rather than an honest telling of the disaster it had been. Two words stood out to me while watching this: Guerrero Street. The Disaster Artist is a biopic comedy based off of the novel by Greg Sestero, a young actor who in the late…
Review: Capote
Finally got around to watching this, possibly the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s greatest performance. One of the greatest writers in 1950s America decides that his best novel would be a biography following the hideous murder of an entire family by two men, and the trial that came after. What he doesn’t expect, in his overconfidence,…