Battle of the Sexes: Stone vs Carell, Man vs Woman, Freedom vs Intolerance
The (in)famous “Battle of the Sexes” exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs is perfect fodder for a modern-day biopic.
The (in)famous “Battle of the Sexes” exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs is perfect fodder for a modern-day biopic.
My estimable colleague Jono Winter recently posted a favourable – if tentatively favourable – review of X-Men: Apocalypse on this site. As a steadfast fan of (most) of the X-Men films, I found time in my overseas holiday to fit in a (Croatian-subtitled) screening of the film and, regrettably, I can’t concur with his positive…
As an introduction to a film series that’s still going fourteen years later, X-Men did everything it needed to. Specifically: be an adequate film with an amazing cast. There’s not much to X-Men. It’s more like a feature length television pilot than a complete movie, spicing up its introduction to this world of superpowered mutants…
Any Day Now tells a powerful story. Based on the real-life case of a gay couple in the ‘70s who fought for legal guardianship of a mentally handicapped boy, this is an important story that demands to be told. Unfortunately, while the story itself is moving, Any Day Now fails to distinguish itself as a…