Biopic Dramas
Contributing Articles in Biopic Dramas
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Film Review - Creation
Jon Amiel's film about the writer of On the Origin of Species deals less with the father of modern biology and more with the father of a lost little girl.
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The Blind Side Film Review
It's blandly calculated, safe, invulnerable and cute. Michael Oher winds up a supporting player in his own biopic, although Sandra Bullock is a surprisingly strong lead.
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TV Review: Miss Austen Regrets
Jane Austen's private life is revealed in this BBC feature-length dramatisation when her niece Fanny sought advice on love and marriage.
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The Damned United
Get up close and personal with the player turned coach of famed British Leeds soccer champ whose luck comes up against some very determined player resisters.
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The Soloist Movie Review
Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. do their best to keep up with director Joe Wright's baton, which swings wildly all over a movie whose score needs additional notations.
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Bugsy a BioPic About Gangster Ben Siegel
Bugsy, 1991, is a gangster film starring Warren Beatty and Annette Benning as mobster Ben Siegel and molll Virginia Hill and the beginning of Las Vegas as a casino town.
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Matt Damon as The Informant
The Informant is two films at once: a clever comedic yarn about a corporate whistle-blower while under the surface is a sad and affecting portrait of a man afflicted
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Julie & Julia Review
Julia Child created a cook book, and almost 50 years later, Julie Powell created a blog about it.
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Film Review - Taking Woodstock (2009)
Critical darling Ang Lee returns to vintage America with the mellow tale of Elliot Tiber and his seemingly destined involvement in the original 1969 Woodstock Festival.
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Movie Review: American Splendor
Harvey Pekar has a dead-end job, questionable hygiene, a crummy attitude, and an explosive temper. It's safe to say that he's no hero. Right? This movie begs to differ.
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HBO Grey Gardens covers a 40 year span
The HBO moviGrey Gardens is the story of an eccentric mother and daugher duo, "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange.
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Summary of Seven Years in Tibet
An Austrian mountain climber develops a relationship with the Dalai Lama after spending seven years wandering through World War 2 era China.
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Public Enemies - A Michael Mann Film
1933, John Dillinger's (Johnny Depp) bank robbing spree turns him into a celebrity. Young FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) is ordered to hunt down Dillinger.
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W. Blu-ray Review
While not the rampaging muckraker he could be, Oliver Stone puts forth quiet rage amid a towering tale of a Texan family whose trappings worked us all over
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