Biography
Where can you meet famous inventors, notorious criminals, great dictators, selfless heroes, charismatic eccentrics and all manner of real life fascinating folk? Right here in Alice's Biography section.
Pictured: Kerry Fox is a knock-out playing celebrated kiwi author Janet Frame in Jane Campion's luminous 'An Angel At My Table', based on Frame's autobiographical trilogy.
Ip Man 2 (Blu-ray) (2010)
7.5/10
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, Xiaoming Huang, Lynn Hung
Picking up from the hugely successful "Ip Man", this sequel sees Donnie Yen return in the titular role as he immigrates to Hong Kong in 1949. After pr... Read more
Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013)
6.2/10
Director: Herman Yau
Starring: Anthony Wong, Jordan Chan, Eric Tsang
In postwar Hong Kong, legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man is reluctantly called into action once more, when what begin as simple challenges from ri... Read more
Ip Man: The Final Fight (Blu-ray) (2013)
6.2/10
Director: Herman Yau
Starring: Anthony Wong, Jordan Chan, Eric Tsang
In postwar Hong Kong, legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man is reluctantly called into action once more, when what begin as simple challenges from ri... Read more
Ip Man: The Legend is Born (2010)
8/10
Director: Herman Yau
Starring: Fan Siu-Wong, Dennis To
This prequel to the 'Ip Man' saga introduces the man who will become the legendary martial artist. As a child in Foshan, China, Ip Man learns a myster... Read more
Iris (2001)
7.1/10
Director: Richard Eyre
Starring: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville
This compassionate true-life story centres on Iris Murdoch, the gifted British novelist and philosopher, whose latter years were ravaged by Alzheimer'... Read more
Isabelle Eberhardt (1991)
5.9/10
Director: Ian Pringle
Starring: Mathilda May, Tcheky Karyo, Peter O'Toole
The story of a young woman journalist who becomes enmeshed in the politics of the annexation of Morrocco from Algeria at the turn of the twentieth cen... Read more
Isadora (1968)
7.6/10
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: James Fox, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Ivan Tchenko
A.k.a. "The Loves of Isadora". Isadora Duncan was the most iconic free-style dancer of the 20th century, and a woman who courted both admiration and s... Read more
J. Edgar (2011)
6.6/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Judi Dench, Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas, Armie Hammer
Directed by Clint Eastwood, this compelling biopic stars Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover - the director of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years. Both f... Read more
J. Edgar (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.5/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Judi Dench, Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas, Armie Hammer
Directed by Clint Eastwood, this compelling biopic stars Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover - the director of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years. Both f... Read more
Jackie (2016)
6.7/10
Director: Pablo Larrain
Starring: Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Natalie Portman, Richard E Grant, Peter Sarsgaard, Beth...
A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, t... Read more