Sentences with phrase «other biopics»

Where other biopics seem to have made up their minds about their famous figures before the opening credits roll, this remarkable study of social psychologist Stanley Milgram remains curious, exploring and questioning his life, career and findings.

Not only that, but Steven Rogers» script landed on this year's Black List, along with several other biopics.

Other biopics that feature interracial romance include «Mr. and Mrs. Loving,» «Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story» «Malcolm X» and «The Great White Hope.»

Finally, there's also the possibility that the film may also feel too perfectly calibrated for Oscar and could meet the same fate as other biopics like J. Edgar and last year's Unbroken.

We just mentioned the fact that Beyonce will direct her own bio-doc for HBO, but there are a few other biopics in development, too.

Directed by Jake Kasdan (who co-wrote the script with producer Apatow), it's more silly than clever, quoting «Ray» and «Walk the Line» (among other biopics) as Dewey morphs through country, R&B, rock, folk and other musical genres

Clearly Sorkin feels most at home with a biopic these days, and the structure of Molly's Game is heavily inspired by his other biopics of recent memory.

It will be hard to imagine any other biopic topping Experimenter this year.

Larraín's other biopic this year, Jackie, could very well end up in the Best Picture and Best Director race, while its star, Natalie Portman, is all but guaranteed an acting spot.

Not exact matches

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Critic Consensus: El Cantante adheres to the most basic conventions of the musical biopic, rendering it indistinguishable from others of its ilk.

Starring Margot Robbie as the self - described «totally redneck» skater, Craig Gillespie's darkly funny biopic follows several other reassessments of that decade's female media targets: Anita Hill (Confirmation), Marcia Clark (The People v. O.J. Simpson), and Monica Lewinsky (American Crime Story's planned fourth season).

There's a unique novelty in general to this film's featuring its protagonist as a biopic in the starring role, and as a war film, it has a few other twists, but when it falls to formula, it falls pretty hard, with very mid-20th century Hollywood tropes to its plotting, characterization and, for that matter, fluff which tends to get a little too fluffy for its own good.

Critics Consensus: El Cantante adheres to the most basic conventions of the musical biopic, rendering it indistinguishable from others of its ilk.

Jolie deserves credit for certain directorial choices that distinguish Unbroken from other Hollywood biopics.

I, Tonya takes greater risks with the biopic genre than any other in recent memory, and it's remarkable how much of it lands upright.

For our first show of 2018, we welcome writer and critic Dr Eloise Ross, who joins us as we check out some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's paean to press freedoms The Post (01:04), Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water (05:46), Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (10:23), and Ridley Scott's Getty dynasty biopic All the Money in the World (13:16).

Earlier today Empire Online reported that Juno star Ellen Page was in early negotiations to play none other than John Belushi's wife, Judith Jacklin, in the forthcoming Biopic of the Animal House comedian.

Two other films are currently growing in RHP's greenhouse, including Hill's L.A.P.I. and a biopic on modern teen outlaw, Colton Harris Moore, with Green circling to direct.

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

Sadly, Kubrick died prior to the release of «Eyes,» his last film, and «A.I.» seemed to be a lost cause much like Kubrick's other inevitably great unfinished work, a biopic based on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Much better than the other sciencey biopic everyone seems to love, «Theory of Everything».

In any other year, a beautiful ingenue going «ugly» in a transformative biopic would be the recipe for success.

He's got several other scripts in development, including a James Brown biopic for Tate Taylor.

We kick off the show looking at some of this month's key films, including Steven Spielberg's literally - ripped - from - the - headlines true story The Post, Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water, Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, and Ridley Scott's ambitious Getty family biopic All the Money in the World.

With his other 2016 Oscar contender «Jackie» making a big push in major categories, he'll be hoping the love extends to this Chilean biopic.

The others are «Last Days in the Desert» (May 13), from «Albert Nobbs» director Rodrigo Garcia, which stars Ewan McGregor as both Jesus and the Devil (yep, you read that right) in a struggle over the fate of an ordinary family; and writer / director James Napier Robertson's «The Dark Horse» (Apr. 1) a biopic of chess champion Genesis Potini.

No other American biopic would have tried it, but who knew such bold experimentation could be so... academic?

This biopic, which features Eddie Redmayne's («The Other Boleyn Girl») extraordinary simulation of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking's battle with one of the worst neural degenerative diseases, is remarkable for its star's dedication.

This slick and straightforward biopic from director Angelina Jolie is intimate in some spots and sprawling in others, yet it lacks focus and fails to sustain its emotional pull in the way it should.

Unlike most other genres, whether a biopic succeeds with flying colors in capturing, or...

Among the many biopics swarming Academy voters this year (much like every other year), few will take you as much by surprise as Trumbo.

A real movie lover's movie, The Aviator sees Martin Scorsese bring a touch of panache to this Howard Hughes biopic, which features probably Leonardo DiCaprio's best performance to date (though he does look rather too young for most of the film) and a host of other fine performances, none finer than Cate Blanchett, who is mesmerising as Katherine Hepburn (though never quite so mesmerising as Hepburn herself was).

Beach Boy genius Brian Wilson loved being tucked away in the recording studio, especially, as this new biopic suggests, when the other guys in the band were off chasing girls.

It may, on the other hand, be a case of clashing schedules, with Alien: Covenant set to go shortly and Rapace currently in pre-production for the title role in the Amy Winehouse biopic.

At the very least, it should erase memories of a certain other intel biopic - it rhymes with «the pith pestate» — and bring cinematic redress to one of Britain's most unfairly treated heroes.

Other strong contenders this year are Danny Boyle «s biopic Steve Jobs and Tom McCarthy «s newsroom drama Spotlight.

Yes, its a parody (so are most musical biopics, including others on the list — see the upcoming Jake Kasdan / Judd Apatow picture, «Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story» for more on that score).

Other upcoming projects include SKY LADDER: THE ART OF CAI GUO - QIANG which premiered at Sundance, the Stephen Frears - directed Lance Armstrong biopic THE PROGRAM, Disney's QUEEN OF KATWE starring David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong» o and directed by Mira Nair and the Idris Elba thriller BASTILLE DAY.

His latest gangster role is none other than Al Capone himself, in a biopic titled Fonzo.

The source material here is a novel by David Ebershoff, which plunks The Danish Girl somewhere between biopic and literary adaptation; among other things, the movie de-queers its 1920s art world milieu, with Gerda portrayed as more or less straight here, despite the fact that her real - life equivalent had a significant sideline drawing lesbian erotica.

A sad story resistant to its own sadness, a meta - biopic gleefully subverting some overdrawn tropes and playing others completely straight, A Futile And Stupid Gesture is at odds with itself.

Other nominees spread across various categories include the Sundance sensation Manchester by the Sea, the first lady biopic Jackie, the comedic drama Other People, the quirky farting corpse comedy Swiss Army Man, and plenty of other movies that you simply must seekOther nominees spread across various categories include the Sundance sensation Manchester by the Sea, the first lady biopic Jackie, the comedic drama Other People, the quirky farting corpse comedy Swiss Army Man, and plenty of other movies that you simply must seekOther People, the quirky farting corpse comedy Swiss Army Man, and plenty of other movies that you simply must seekother movies that you simply must seek out.

It's So Easy and Other Lies (Unrated) Warts - and - all biopic about Guns N» Roses» bass player Duff McKagan, chronicling his fame and fortune as well as his near - fatal struggle with alcohol and drugs.

Extras: Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer; segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive; «A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible,» Russell's 1989 biopic on his own life and career; interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson; interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set; new interviews with director of photography Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell; «Second Best,» a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates; trailer; an essay by scholar Linda Ruth Williams.

The film director has been fired from his current Queen biopic, but as with all the other cases of harassment, bullying and toxic masculinity, what took Tinseltown so long?

But what raises this movie above most other American biopics is that Lee seems genuinely connected to this material.

There is no hint of his one life in the other, and the film suffers as a biopic on account of that.

OTHER CONTENDERS Brie Larson — The Glass Castle Jennifer Jason Leigh — LBJ Julie Walters — Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool Juno Temple — Wonder Wheel Lesley Manville — Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Project Margot Robbie — Untitled A.A. Milne Biopic Rachel Weisz — Disobedience Rebecca Ferguson — The Greatest Showman Riley Keough — Under the Silver Lake Rosamund Pike — Entebbe Tessa Thompson — Annihilation Vanessa Redgrave — Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Eckhart's other upcoming parts include the comic book adaptation I, Frankenstein, the Beach Boys biopic The Drummer, and the fairy tell retelling Pan.