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Helen Mirren is absolutely brilliant in the title role of Queen Elizabeth II in the vastly entertaining 2006 biographical drama film, sweeping all before her on the way to winning the Academy Award for Best […]
Writer-director Bernard Rose’s fumbled 1994 film Immortal Beloved is a plush but pretty tedious historical biopic, with Gary Oldman bravely battling miscasting as musical ‘genius’ Ludwig van Beethoven, with the mystery of the composer’s Unsterbliche […]
The urgent and timely 1993 American TV docudrama film And the Band Played On is directed by Roger Spottiswoode, who turns Randy Shilts’s controversial book about how and why the AIDS crisis happened into a […]
Tom Hanks’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar-nominated performance as TV host star Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is skilled, appealing and ingratiating. It gets right under your skin. It is better than […]
Tony Curtis plays an Indian who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima. Director Delbert Mann’s sincere and well-meaning 1961 war drama The Outsider stars Tony Curtis, who puts in […]
Loved it! Director Kevin Macdonald’s in-depth film Whitney is an extremely powerful and disturbing documentary telling the ultimately tragic story of chart-topping singer Whitney Houston, with marvellous archive footage and intimately revealing interviews. With access to the Houston […]
A bearded, haunted looking Montgomery Clift’s intelligent performance as the famous Viennese psychiatrist Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the clear and riveting direction by John Huston, and Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt’s revealing screenplay all combine […]