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Review

From Hilde, With Love review – too staid to make an impact

by Laura Venning

Andreas Dresen’s Nazi Ger­many-set biopic on resis­tance fight­ers Hilde and Hans Cop­pi fails to do their sto­ry justice.

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Incoming

The great biopic brain drain

by Callie Petch

In an age of Walk Hard knock-offs, why are the biopics that con­tin­ue to play it safe the biggest suc­cess stories?
Two men, one with a beard and hat, using a laser measurement tool to take a reading.
Review

The Fire Inside review – a sporting biog that lacks originality

by David Jenkins

Rachel Mor­ri­son directs a script by Bar­ry Jenk­ins with this sad­ly-under­whelm­ing under­dog box­ing biopic of Cla­res­sa ​“T‑Rex” Shields.

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Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

A Complete Unknown | Wolf Man | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

On Truth & Movies this week, we dis­cuss the James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Com­plete Unknown and then review Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man. Final­ly, for film club, we revis­it­ed Inside Llewyn Davis.
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Review

Better Man review – chimply irresistible

by Hannah Strong

Ridicu­lous­ly enjoy­able Rob­bie Williams biopic with the bold gam­bit of hav­ing a CG-chim­panzee in the title role pay­ing off handsomely.

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Review

A Complete Unknown review – drips with hollow trivia

by David Jenkins

Tim­o­th­ée Cha­la­met plays music leg­end Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s lat­est, which appears total­ly unwill­ing to escape the vapid biopic formula.

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Interviews

Kneecap: ‘There was no word for cocaine in Irish’

by Rógan Graham

Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Pró­vaí, bet­ter known as Kneecap, (plus direc­tor Rich Pep­pi­att) give the low­down on the cre­ation of their rau­cous qua­si-biopic, which cap­tures the for­ma­tion of their rap trio in Belfast and the ongo­ing fight to save the Irish language.
Three young men in dark leather jackets and sunglasses, sitting on a vintage car, each holding a guitar.
Interviews

Iain Softley: ‘I had this idea in my mind, “What would the story be if these weren’t The Beatles?”’

by Michael Leader

As Sam Mendes gears up to make his behe­moth Bea­t­les biopic, the direc­tor of 1994 ear­ly-Bea­t­les dra­ma Back­beat reflects on the sto­ry of Stu­art Sut­cliffe – the Bea­t­le who wasn’t.
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Review

Maestro review – as heady and bombastic as a golden-age Hollywood musical

by Lillian Crawford

Bradley Coop­er soars in this lov­ing­ly craft­ed biopic of leg­endary com­pos­er Leonard Bernstein.

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Review

Typist Artist Pirate King review – cleverly picks apart biopic clichés

by David Jenkins

Car­ol Mor­ley con­structs a cre­ative trib­ute to the artist Audrey Amiss, who cre­at­ed thou­sands of art­works but remained most­ly unknown until her death in 2013.

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