Friday, May 18, 2012

film review: J. Edgar (2011)

January 22, 2012 by  
Filed under 5/10, biopic, cinema reviews, drama, Reviews

I never knew that much about J. Edgar Hoover, beyond the fact that he was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and that he was rather controversial. That really was pretty much it. In preparation for this film then, I decided to read up a bit. He was actually a fascinating character… you [...]

film review: Nowhere Boy (2009)

January 25, 2010 by  
Filed under 7/10, biopic, cinema reviews, drama, Reviews

Saw this a few weeks ago and since it got a few BAFTA nominations the other day I thought I’d better get my act together and do the review. Hey maybe it’ll convince someone to go and see it, after all it only seems to have 424 ratings on IMDb… Nowhere Boy is a biopic [...]

review: The Damned United (2009)

April 6, 2009 by  
Filed under 8/10, biopic, cinema reviews, drama, Reviews

Ok… So I actually wrote most of this review last week but somehow it’s all been deleted, very upsetting. Oh well, better just get on with it. I like watching football, but I don’t know all that much about some of the history of it. All I knew about Brian Clough was that he once [...]