Biopics
Helmut Berger, star of Visconti’s The Damned, dies aged 78
Acclaimed actor in European art cinema also secured a prominent role in US soap opera Dynasty
Andrew Pulver
19, May, 2023 @11:25 AM
‘I think we have inherent biases’: Marchánt Davis on playing a ‘white guy with a beer belly’ in Reality
The rising star of stage and screen discusses his new biopic about the whistleblower Reality Winner, Chris Morris’ view on law enforcement and meeting Henry Winkler
Shaad D'Souza
18, May, 2023 @3:00 PM
Johnny Depp casts Al Pacino in biopic of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani
Pacino is to star as art collector Maurice Gangnat in Modi, a drama about the Italian painter’s life in Paris. It will be Depp’s second film as director
Andrew Pulver
11, May, 2023 @11:02 AM
Frankie Goes to Hollywood biopic Relax in the works
Callum Scott Howells from It’s a Sin will play lead singer Holly Johnson, whose memoir forms the basis for the film
Catherine Shoard
10, May, 2023 @11:30 AM
The Laureate review – prosaic Robert Graves biopic
There’s plenty of romantic intrigue, but this glossy period drama about the British war poet is singularly lacking in erotic tension
Wendy Ide
07, May, 2023 @11:30 AM
The Laureate review – writers throuple up in sinisterly erotic literary thriller
The scandalous love triangle between poet Robert Graves, his feminist wife and a charismatic American writer is the subject of this erotic and entertainingly silly film
Peter Bradshaw
04, May, 2023 @6:00 AM
Big George Foreman review – a heavy-handed boxing biopic
George Tillman Jr’s faith-centric drama plods through Foreman’s uplifting journey from troubled child to comeback king
Wendy Ide
30, Apr, 2023 @11:30 AM
Menage a quatre: why most poetic biopics are romantic fiction
Director William Nunez describes why he focused on a time when the poet Robert Graves – best known for a memoir Goodbye to All That and historical novel I, Claudius – left his wife and family in pursuit of creativity at any cost
Claire Armitstead
28, Apr, 2023 @7:00 AM
Big George Foreman review – from heavyweight star to born again and back
Flattering biopic zooms entertainingly through an extraordinary, switchback career
Peter Bradshaw
27, Apr, 2023 @4:30 AM
Post your questions for Dexter Fletcher
Whether you want to ask about directing films including Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody, being the Press Gang bad boy or effing and jeffing for Guy Ritchie, now is your chance
Rich Pelley
21, Apr, 2023 @9:39 AM
Billy Porter to play James Baldwin in new biopic
Porter to star in and co-write film based on 1994 biography of influential writer and civil rights activist
Adrian Horton
12, Apr, 2023 @6:09 PM
Quentin Tarantino’s next film is about a film critic: should I be scared? | Peter Bradshaw
The director’s last film is rumoured to centre on the life of New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael – if true, her 1970s face-off with Warren Beatty would make a thrilling plot line
Peter Bradshaw
16, Mar, 2023 @12:09 PM
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