With popular actress Sydney Sweeney cast as the titular star of his boxing biopic Christy, Australian filmmaker David Michôd was all set. But that was before Sweeney featured in a
Kiwi actor KJ Apa (Riverdale) plays Jimmy Stewart in a biopic which focuses on the iconic actor's life between winning the Academy Award for The Philadelphia Story to joining the
8.8
… hits the sweet spot not just as a properly effective sports flick, but as a cutting statement on the damage inflicted by heteronormative force.
British writer/director Rowan Athale is forevermore indebted to Rocky icon Sylvester Stallone for helping him realise his own dreams of making a boxing film, culminating in his drama Giant about
1951 biopic of pianist, Eileen Joyce
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Tasked with playing a fictionalised version of Bruce Springsteen’s girlfriend in biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Australian actress Odessa Young nailed it – according to none other than The
7.5
... may trip into the odd musical biopic trope to its own detriment, but as both a viscerally personal snapshot in the life of Bruce Springsteen, and a document of
The 1946 biopic of Charles Kingsford-Smith that ended Ken G Hall’s movie career
6.5
... intimate and atmospheric but ultimately lacks the voltage to make Springsteen’s creative solitude truly sing.