Word: biopics
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...highlights The only Best Picture nominee to be found (legally) in stores, this excellent biopic of genius-wailer Ray Charles boasts the usual vignettes of actors discussing their devotion to their craft. But the limited-edition disc has longer versions of the film's musical numbers, behind-the-screen clips of Charles providing new versions of old songs and a mini-doc of the film's 15-year road to completion--all hosted by Ray's charismatic star, Jamie Foxx...
...begins this biopic, which Spacey wrote, directed and starred in—a strange tale of legendary singer and entertainer Bobby Darin making a movie of his own life, retelling and narrating along...
...little-known hero. Don Cheadle plays Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu hotelier, who turns his hotel into a refugee camp for both Tutsi and Hutu refugees. One man’s courage in the face of extreme evil should ideally inspire audiences, but George’s blend of documentary, biopic and pseudo-political commentary is ultimately too heavy-handed to stir indolent viewers...
...little-known hero. Don Cheadle plays Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu hotelier, who turns his hotel into a refugee camp for both Tutsi and Hutu refugees. One man’s courage in the face of extreme evil should ideally inspire audiences, but George’s blend of documentary, biopic and pseudo-political commentary is ultimately too heavy-handed to stir indolent viewers...
...couldn’t help but ponder this frustrating paradox during Martin Scorsese’s newest, The Aviator, a film chronicling the life of Hollywood wonderboy Howard Hughes. There is no question that Martin Scorsese is a brilliant and gifted filmmaker, but his new biopic is lifeless—a word rarely applied to the always vital Scorsese. It is a film without passion seemingly made solely to finally get Scorsese the Oscar his previous work has so richly deserved...