Biopic

The more time passes, the more it feels like the announcement of the first iPhone was the birth of a new world. It wasn’t the first phone that sold itself as a computer in your pocket, but it did define how we used phones – what they could…

It’s the 1970s and a struggling comedian wants the world to notice him. He longs to be a star so badly and is convinced he has the talent to make it in show business. The big problem, besides personal demons and the struggle to make ends…

With Vice, director Adam McKay has strengthened and perfected his ‘bio/docu/com’ style of political biopic. Eschewing the usual Oscar bait candy floss structure, McKay creates a version of Dick Cheney that seems just as comfortable segueing…

David Fincher’s The Social Network is an under-appreciated mammoth of a film. A film which helped to redefine the function of the biopic, as more than merely capturing moments and personalities.The question is not whether this is the case,…

Stephen Bradley is the writer and director of the recent bio-pic of Christina Noble. In this fascinating chat he takes us on the journey from the lunch where the project began, right up to the eve of it’s American release. The film has had…

At the risk of sounding incredibly pretentious there is a scene in Mr Turner that reminded me of Oscar Wilde's remark in The Picture of Dorian Gray that the emotions of people you don't care about seem ridiculous. At one point in Mike…