Feb 15th   
Trumbo** (15)  
(Picturehouse Central, London)

(US 2015)

Communist screenwriter Dalton Trumbo goes to prison for contempt of Congress and struggles to make a living with the support of his family thereafter until his name is brought out into the open as the writer of Spartacus.
Quite creditable biopic with some good resemblances to the famous Hollywood names, although sluggish in phases but compelling for most of it, with the central performance carrying it through.

Written by: John McNamara, from the book by Bruce Cook.
Producers: Michael London, Janice Williams, Shivani Rawat, Monica Levinson, Nimitt Mankad, John McNamara, Kevin Kelly Brown.
Director: Jay Roach.
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren (as Hedda Hopper), David James Elliott (as John Wayne), Dean O'Gorman (as Kirk Douglas), Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, Michael Stuhlbarg (as Edward G. Robinson), John Goodman, Roger Bart, Christian Berkel (as Otto Preminger).
Photography: Jim Denault.
Music: Theodore Shapiro.

+ see also Exodus and Johnny Got His Gun (above)