All Entries in the "Biography" Category
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)
Director(s):Marshall Curry Cast(s):Daniel McGowen,Adal Ramones,Jaime Camil,Jesús Ochoa,Gerardo Taracena,Joaquín Cosio,Isela Vega,Rodrigo Oviedo,Marius Biegai,Claudia Salinas,Michelle Marie Benoit,Michael Birnberg,Alex Cervantes,Manuel Domínguez,Roberto Espejo Plot:IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.' With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of [...]
The King’s Speech
If you prefer your films about the British royalty to be chipper and full of pluck and tender moments (those stiff upper lips do quiver so rarely but expressively), then this heart-warming effort from Tom Hooper is certainly for you. An Anglophilic dream of a piece, it fits in with a somewhat disquieting trend in [...]
The Social Network
Some people are born with good looks or with the natural hand-eye coordination necessary to hit a fast ball. Others come from money or are naturally charismatic; they draw people to them in a way that just can’t be learned. Then there’s the rest of us. We’re nothing special. We’ll never be those people. We [...]
The Fighter
No boxing movie is just about boxing, of course, given our national penchant for building up some punches and jabs into metaphors for class tension or American resilience or whatever’s relevant at the moment. At least with The Fighter, his endearing and tenacious new film, David O. Russell isn’t turning Micky Ward’s life into a [...]
Nowhere Boy (2009)
Director(s): Writer(s): Cast(s): John, Uncle George, Young John Plot:
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)
Director(s): Writer(s): Cast(s): Jacques Mesrine, Sylvie Jeanjacquot, François Besse, Charly Bauer, Le commissaire Broussard, Henri Lelièvre Plot:
A Dead Man in Deptford (2011)
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Your Cheatin' Heart (1964)
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