Biopics
Cabrini review – lushly mounted hagiography of the first US saint to be canonised
Biopic of an Italian nun who moves to New York to build orphanages in the slums portrays her as wholly holy in her mission
Leslie Felperin
11, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM
Cillian Murphy wins best actor Oscar for Oppenheimer
Irish actor takes the award for his role as nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, in Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed biopic
Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard
11, Mar, 2024 @2:00 AM
Origin review – Ava DuVernay’s uneven biopic of journalist Isabel Wilkerson and her writing on race
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is magnetic as the US author of Caste in an ambitious if didactic film that struggles to encapsulate her life and work
Wendy Ide
10, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM
‘You’ll believe a radioactive dinosaur can shoot fire’: readers’ picks for the 2024 Oscars
From a ‘tuning fork’ actor to non-sensational cannibalism, an under-the-radar animation to a triple-language’d tour-de-force, your choices ranged far and wide
Guardian readers
06, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM
‘Nothing off limits’: Sam Mendes to direct four Beatles films – one about each member
Director of 1917 announces ambitious project which has full approval of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison
Catherine Shoard
20, Feb, 2024 @3:45 PM
Bob Marley: One Love review – the reggae superstar deserves a better film than this
British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley and the magnetic Lashana Lynch as Marley’s wife, Rita, are let down by this deferential biopic’s undercooked screenplay
Wendy Ide
17, Feb, 2024 @3:00 PM
Ridley Scott set to direct Bee Gees biopic
Fresh from filming Gladiator 2, the British director is being lined up for a project about the Stayin’ Alive singers, produced by the company that made Bohemian Rhapsody
Andrew Pulver
16, Feb, 2024 @12:02 PM
The Iron Claw review – crowd-pleasing wrestling saga grapples with toxic masculinity
A career-best turn from Zac Efron, plus a tide of true-life triumph and tragedy, power director Sean Durkin’s bone-crunching drama
Wendy Ide
11, Feb, 2024 @8:00 AM
Streaming: the best films about artists
From Wim Wenders’ recent Anselm Kiefer documentary to Kirk Douglas’s tortured Van Gogh and Derek Jarman’s erotic ode to Caravaggio, cinema loves a brush with genius
Guy Lodge
10, Feb, 2024 @8:00 AM
Bob Marley: One Love review – reverential biopic of reggae superstar struggles to stir it up
With Marley’s family on board, this officially-approved life story serves up the hits but skirts some big questions
Peter Bradshaw
08, Feb, 2024 @6:00 PM
Full trailer for Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black released
Much hyped Sam Taylor-Johnson film stars Marisa Abela as the singer, who died at her north London home in 2011
Guardian film
02, Feb, 2024 @2:48 PM
‘It was buy eggs or put money on my travel card’: actor Lashana Lynch on Bond, Bob Marley and being broke
She shot to fame as the first female 007 and is now tackling reggae royalty as Marley’s wife, Rita. But the actor hasn’t always had it easy in an industry hostile to people without a safety net
Tshepo Mokoena
27, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM
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