Interview: Director Will Sharpe on The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
That Shelf speaks to director Will Sharpe about his new feature, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Respect Review: The Power of a Voice
Jennifer Hudson belts out one showstopper after another in the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect.
Tesla Review: An Experiment with Spark but No Current
New take on inventor Nikola Tesla serves the biopic genre for educational purposes, but not necessarily for entertainment.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Review: One of 2019’s Best Feel-good Movies
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood star Tom Hanks delivers one of the year’s most charming performances as legendary TV star Fred Rogers.
TIFF 2019: Dolemite Is My Name Review
Eddie Murphy's long awaited return at TIFF 2019 in the Rudy Ray Moore biopic Dolemite Is My Name!
TIFF 2019: I Am Woman Review
TIFF 2019: I Am Woman Review
Cannes 2019: Rocketman’s Taron Egerton and Dexter Fletcher on Elton John and Trying to Make His Iconic Music Their Own
We ask the cast and director of Rocketman about capturing the heart of Elton John for the musical biopic and making some of the most famous songs of all time their own!
Rocketman Review
ThatShelf.com Managing Editor Jason Gorber shares his thoughts on Dexter Fletcher's highly anticipated Elton John biopic Rocketman – starring Taron Egerton and Richard Madden!
TIFF 2016: The Bleeder Review
The Bleeder TIFF 2016 Review.
12 Years a Slave
Video Review
And now for something a little different: A video review! Dork Shelf's own Brandon Bastaldo takes a look at Steve McQueen's slavery drama 12 Years a Slave starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender.
Jobs Review
There's no way Jobs can be looked at as a serious biopic about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. It's a frustrating iDisaster.
The Iron Lady Review
Sometimes a movie that deserves a spot on a critic’s ten worst films list ends up being excluded because of a technicality. The beetle-headed Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady should almost dead to rights be quite high up on the list of 2011's cinematic atrocities, but thanks to limited Oscar qualifying runs in New York and Los Angeles at the end of the year I felt it wrong to talk about the film in too much depth before its proper wide release. It wasn’t embargoed at all, but I felt it was still too early. That time for charity is over. This movie’s an outright trainwreck with a central performance that isn’t half as good as the work that Meryl Streep has shown in the past.
