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Biopics

November 2025

  • Physical transformation … Sweeney.

    ‘I can’t control how others perceive me’: Sydney Sweeney on boxing, weight gain and her flair for controversy

    She ignited a culture war with a jeans advert. Now she has delivered a knockout performance as boxer Christy Martin. Sweeney talks about taking punches in the ring – and in the media
  • man smiles as he puts hands on headphones

    Michael: first trailer unveiled for controversial Michael Jackson biopic

    Star will be played by the real-life singer’s nephew Jaafar Jackson in a film that will ‘humanise but not sanitise’ him
  • Stream Lover. From left to right: Pluribus,Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier in Train Dreams, Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal in a scene from "Materialists." and Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein in “Frankenstein”.

    Stream lover
    Frankenstein, Materialists and Pluribus: what’s new to streaming in Australia in November

    Plus a film starring a career-best Joel Edgerton, a chance to stream Annie Hall and remember Diane Keaton, and a new thriller series starring Sarah Snook

October 2025

  • Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.

    Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – brooding, earnest portrait of the Boss’s crisis years

    Jeremy Allen White gives a committed performance in this awkward biopic, stranded between rock mythology and pop-psych melodrama
  • Film still: Giant (2025) starring Pierce Brosnan, Amir El Masry

    Giant review – Prince Naseem biopic with Pierce Brosnan on hand misses the punch

    Despite the odd laugh, the story of the boxer’s path from Sheffield gyms to global stardom and his break with mentor Brendan Ingle feels dramatically underweight

    • Bossing it! The makers of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere on turning Jeremy Allen White into the rock icon

    • Actor Robert Aramayo: ‘Like anybody who hasn’t had the education, I thought Tourette syndrome was all about swearing’

    • Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight review – heartfelt child’s-eye view of last days of Rhodesia

September 2025

  • person wearing plaid plays guitar while sitting on chair

    First look review
    Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – solid biopic both embraces and avoids cliche

    Jeremy Allen White is a convincingly tortured rock star in this smartly narrow and specific look at a particular chapter of music history
  • Dwayne Johnson (left) and The Smashing Machine director Benny Safdie.

    ‘This is the first time I’ve not thought about the box office’: Dwayne Johnson on wrestling, reinvention and the role that could redefine him

    He became cinema’s most bankable strongman. But weary of his own persona, Johnson turned to indie director Benny Safdie – and delivered a bruising new role that rewrites his own rulebook

    • Queen of the Ring review – diner waitress turned first lady of the all-girl wrestling scene

    • Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris criticises ‘sugar-coated’ biopic about her father

    • The Testament of Ann Lee review – strikingly strange portrait of radically ecstatic Shaker leader

August 2025

  • Noomi Rapace as Mother Teresa in Mother.

    Mother review – Noomi Rapace is a fanatical Mother Teresa full of fury

  • composite photo of two men wearing glasses

    Guy Pearce set to play Rupert Murdoch in Danny Boyle-directed drama

  • Sinead O' Connor in Bray, Ireland, in 2008.

    Sinéad O’Connor biopic in the works produced by company behind Slow Horses

  • Patterson and Mangione.

    James Patterson to write book about Luigi Mangione

July 2025

  • Saturnine and sulphurous … F Murray Abraham, left, as Salieri, and Tom Hulce, right, as Mozart in Amadeus.

    Amadeus review – F Murray Abraham mesmerises as Mozart’s lizardly frenemy in Miloš Forman’s masterpiece

  • He is now much more satisfied and sends ‘peace and love’ … Ringo Starr.

    ‘We would never do that’: Ringo Starr says he asked for changes in Beatles movie script

June 2025

  • Sparring partners … Maxine Peake as Anna Politkovskaya and Jason Isaacs as her husband.

    Words of War review – Maxine Peake leads line as murdered Putin-critic journalist Anna Politkovskaya

    Peake stars opposite Jason Isaacs, as Politkovskaya’s husband, in this sentimental look at the life of a woman who, 19 years after her death, remains a folk hero
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