If there is one subgenre of film that I am almost uniformly against, it'd have to be the biopic. As with any genre there are a few exceptions to the rule, but for the most part these don't work and I can't really imagine a place for them to belong in the industry. It makes sense in theory to want to depict the life of someone in a motion picture, but there's just no way that you can properly condense…

So gushingly arty, beautifully free-spirited, it's Salma Hayek's most visible and memorable performance to date; But....no wonder you've never heard of her - no one involved seems interested creating a coherent spectrum of Frida Cahlo, instead content in ignoring her as an icon, creating an interesting human being and generally stating and re-stating that there was no line between the two, (the makers of Pollock should have pitched in, that film was nothing but Pollack-as-icon.) Taymor is a major talent,…

This is one of those movies that I had always wanted to watch to see why Salma Hayek got an Oscar nod. Now after viewing it, I know why. This film is pretty good and does a better job than most of the biopics because instead of getting lost in one point in time and covering it to death, the movie is able to span her life when she is more mature instead of making the mistake that most bipics…