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Biopics

November 2024

  • In an all-Lego room, a Lego figure is enraptured by the synaesthesia colours coming out of a speaker playing music.

    Piece by Piece review – Pharrell Williams biopic told in Lego is a bit of plastic fun

  • Screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne and his wife Rachel Mason photographed on Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath, London for the Observer New Review by Pedro Alvarez, October 2024.

    ‘Rachel had been ready to leave me if our IVF hadn’t worked’: writer Jack Thorne on how his family’s fertility struggles inspired his new film

  • Pharrell Williams in Piece by Piece

    Piece By Piece review – heartfelt biopic of Pharrell Williams’s life … in Lego

  • Mark Leslie Ford (left) and Mike Colter in I’m Charlie Walker.

    I’m Charlie Walker review – stereotype-busting sort-of true story of a trucker and an oil spill

October 2024

  • Deeply empathic … Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Brian Epstein in Midas Man.

    Midas Man review – Jacob Fortune-Lloyd is heartfelt as Beatles’ kingmaker

  • Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice.

    Americans don’t want to see a Trump movie but elsewhere it’s a different story

  • Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong walking along together.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    The Apprentice review – Jeremy Strong is the Trump card in measured biopic of the Donald

  • Enrico Berlinguer, then leader of the Italian Communist party, speaks at a rally in Rome in 1975.

    Enrico Berlinguer: the 1970s communist hero inspiring Italy’s youth – and the far right

  • Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Kneecap and the best hip-hop movies

  • ‘I’m fine with people bashing us’: inside the controversial Trump biopic

  • John Boyega to play Otis Redding in new biopic alongside Danielle Deadwyler

  • Better Man: see Robbie Williams as a CGI monkey in first trailer for biopic

September 2024

  • This image released by Paramount Pictures shows a scene from "Better Man." (Paramount Pictures via AP)

    First look review
    Better Man review – Robbie Williams monkey biopic is a bananas gamble that pays off

  • A still from Piece By Piece

    First look review
    Piece by Piece review – Pharrell’s Lego biopic deserves to be a blockbuster

  • Lee<br>Kate Winslet in Lee / film still The film explores the most significant decade of Lee Miller’s life. As a middle-aged woman, she refused to be remembered as a model and male artists’ muse. Lee Miller defied the expectations and rules of the time by traveling to Europe to report from the frontline during WWII. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless. What she captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific. Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the Second World War. She changed war photography forever, but Lee Miller paid an enormous personal price for what she witnessed and the stories she fought to tell.

    Kate Winslet insisted her film about Lee Miller must have female director

  • julianne moore looking fondly up at tilda swinton ahead of the venice premiere of almodovar's the room next door

    Venice film festival 2024 roundup – Nicole Kidman gets carnal and Lady Gaga goes crazy

  • Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Firebrand review – Jude Law’s obese and oozy Henry VIII rules supreme in Catherine Parr drama

  • How we made
    ‘Let them kick the crap out of the songs’: how we recreated the Beatles to make Backbeat

August 2024

  • The Apprentice. Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Donald Trump himself. composite.

    Controversial Trump biopic to receive pre-election release in US

  • The lioness in winter … Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in Maria.

    Maria review – Angelina Jolie plays the diva in magnificent stroll around the cult of Callas

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