Biopic

I think I mainly watched this to see a film with Tom Hardy in where you could see his face – and you get double bang for your buck here because he’s playing BOTH Kray twins. Probably also watched this to get a bit of a sense of what the Krays were all about. I…

Fairly gruelling but well-assembled historical drama covering the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings around sexual harassment.  Amid the distraction of “Where do I know her from?!” (Kerry Washington, the mother from Little Fires Everywhere), the main response from us was incredulity at the dismissive attitudes portrayed to the womens’ stories – serving as a reminder that…

Totally didn’t recognise Renee Zellweger in this biopic focus on the latter years of Judy Garland’s life – what a surreal life though… People in the nexus of global adoration can end up leading lives so far detached from “the normal experience” (whatever that is), which Carrie Fisher did an amazing job of describing in…

Dramatisation of entertainment playboy & lightweight David Frost’s campaign to bring attention to himself for interviewing disgraced former President, Richard Nixon – majestically performed by Michael Sheen and Frank Langella.  Wonderful piece of cinema, in that the performances capture the building and changing of the relationship between the two men, and the complexity of the…