Tag: Biography

“Roofman” draws on the true story of Jeffrey Manchester, an ex-Army paratrooper who retools his field ...

In November 2018, the community of Paradise, California, existed on a knife's edge, though few knew ...

Great national dramas often find their stage in the most unlikely of venues. Saipan revisits one ...

The sports biopic, as a form, often promises a clean narrative arc: adversity, training, triumph. Christy ...

Stage acting is a phantom art, its brilliance vanishing the moment the curtain falls. For historical ...

The air in Dead Man’s Wire is cold from the very first frame. We are in ...

A grainy video image flickers. We hear a voice, disarmingly gentle and sweet, describing the pure ...

Ann Lee is not a figure of history, but a fracture in it. Mona Fastvold’s film, ...

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet approaches William Shakespeare, a figure so foundational to the Western canon he has ...

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere rejects the familiar architecture of the music biopic. It is not ...