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[We now bring bring James's take on Part 2 of the Mesrine biopic - if you are at Fantasia, do not pass up the opportunity to see them both back-to-back - albeit it is a tough choice against Metropolis-Extended with...

[While they only (bafflingly) screened the first half of the sprawling Mesrine biopic at TIFF, it is gonzo movie-making that blows the biopic formula away in the opposite fashion of Soderbergh's Che, here is my review pulled out from the...

Who'd have thought the director of the pointless and forgettable Assault On Precinct 13 remake could turn out such a thoroughly entertaining crime epic. Doubt ye not though because  Jean-François Richet's biopic of the self-aggrandising French bank robber, jail-breaker,...

While L'INSTINCT DE MORT opened with a stylised, split-screen build up to the, for want of a better word, assassination of French criminal Jacques Mesrine, L'ENNEMI PUBLIC No.1 -  begins with the chaotic aftermath, shot guerrilla-style from within the...

The film opens with a statement from the filmmakers, acknowledging that any adaptation of a real life story will take some liberties and make changes. "To each their own," it declares, letting its audience know right from the off...