Hawke’s elegiac performance is worth the price of admission alone – but don’t expect historical accuracy.
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It’s no real surprise that the Jersey legend has now been given the biopic treatment.
Angelina Jolie gives an inspired performance as opera singer Maria Callas, who suffered from an inflammatory condition called dermatomyositis.
Just a few years into his career, Dylan decided he wanted to subvert the expectations of his fans – and rebel against industry forces intent on pigeonholing him and his work.
My critiques of Mary centre around two themes. One is the way it perpetuates conservative ideals around women and gender. The other is its misrepresentations of Jews and Judaism.
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd takes on the role of legendary Beatles manager Brian Epstein in this new Amazon Prime biopic.
Some have criticised the film’s approach for being too soft on Trump
Some viewers seem to want Abela’s voice to be a carbon copy of Winehouse’s. But the art of vocal impersonation isn’t about perfect replication.
The film leans too heavily on the tabloids’ damaging visual narrative instead of venturing to create its own.
While Back to Black succeeds in avoiding harmful representations of addiction, viewers don’t get a deep insight into its realities and complexities.
The series cuts between Cary Grant’s humble English beginnings and later Hollywood success.
Joyce Carol Oates saw Blonde, her epic novel interrogating the legend of Marilyn Monroe, as ‘my Moby Dick’. Mel Campbell celebrates Oates’ achievement, in the lead-up to the Netflix adaptation.
Presley never wrote a memoir. Nor did he keep a diary. His music could have been a window into his inner life, but he didn’t even write his songs.
Standing out among the crowd of recent artist biopics, the new film Never Look Away peels back some unhelpful tropes that have blinkered our understanding of the artist’s process.
After the first moon landing, the feelings that propelled a unified national mission quickly dissipated. Could Armstrong have played a bigger role in galvanizing the public for future projects?
The story of jazz in the ANC army-in-exile, Umkhonto we Sizwe culture is far more nuanced – and positive – than depicted in a new film.
Molly Meldrum’s life is coming to the small screen with a two-part miniseries. How faithfully can we expect the show to reproduce history? Taking a look at the soundtrack might provide a clue.
Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. His story is told in the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity, screening tonight in selected cinemas in Australia.
Though they presented themselves as hardened gangsters, the only rap sheets NWA had were notebooks full of song lyrics.
The Theory of Everything is a film about two people who meet at university and fall in love. But what makes it remarkable is that one of them is Professor Stephen Hawking and that when he and Jane Wilde…
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