The tragically short career of the “Queen of Tejano Music” is recollected in Selena y Los Dinos. Selena Quintanilla was the youngest daughter of Mexican-American musician Abraham Quintanilla. Beginning at the age of 6, Selena began singing in the band Los Dinos, which also included her older siblings A.B. and Suzette. Initially, the house band…
The career of trailblazing deaf actor Marlee Matlin is revisited in Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore. In 1985, a 19-year-old Marlee Matlin was cast in Randa Haines’s film adaptation of Mark Medoff’s play Children of a Lesser God. This role made Marlee Matlin the youngest Oscar winner for Best Actress and an icon for the…
The story of pioneering women’s wrestler Mildred Burke is told in Queen of the Ring. Mildred Bliss (Emily Bett Rickards) is a Kansas single mother working in her mother’s diner. After attending a match, Mildred became enamoured by the world of professional wrestling. Despite it being illegal at the time for women to wrestle, Mildred…
A woman seeks answers after her husband is forcibly disappeared in I’m Still Here. It is the early 1970s and Brazil is under a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) lives in a beachside house in Rio De Janeiro with her former congressman husband Rubens (Selton Mello) and their five children. Despite the ongoing dictatorship,…
Robbie Williams tells the story of his tumultuous career, characterized as an anthropomorphic chimpanzee, in Better Man. Growing up in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England, Robert Williams (Jonno Davies) dreams of being a performer like his absentee father Peter (Steve Pemberton). Robert gets his big break at 15 when he is chosen by manager Nigel Martin-Smith…
The novel by William S. Burroughs is adapted for the big screen with Queer. As a result of his drug addictions, writer William Lee (William Lee) has been living as an exile in 1950s Mexico City, frequenting the city’s gay bars and sharing tales of homosexual misadventures with his friend Joe Guidry (Jason Schwartzman). Lee…
The early years of the career of Bob Dylan are recreated in A Complete Unknown. In 1961, enigmatic folk singer Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) travels to New York to visit his hero Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), who’s hospitalized with a degenerative illness. It is at the hospital where Bob meets Peter Seeger (Edward Norton), who…
Donald Trump‘s rise during the 1970s and 1980s is dramatized in The Apprentice. In the 1970s, Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan) is a young real estate upstart working for his father Fred (Martin Donovan). After getting into an exclusive club, Trump catches the eye of cutthroat lawyer Ray Cohn (Jeremy Strong), who takes Trump under his…
The final 90 minutes before the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live is dramatized in Saturday Night. It is October 11, 1975 and producer Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) is preparing for the launched of his new sketch comedy series on NBC. With the show yet to have a finalized script. network executive Dick Ebersol (Cooper…
The story of war photographer Lee Miller is told in Lee. In 1977 at the Farleys Farmhouse, an elderly Lee Miller (Kate Winslet) talks to her son Anthony Penrose (Josh O’Connor) about her career as a photographer in World War II. The story begins in 1938 France where former model Lee is vacationing with her…
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