HBO has become one of the great places for auteurs to make cheaper movies. Of late we’ve seen Todd Haynes and Steven Soderbergh turn to the channel to get films made, and now Philip Kaufman has joined ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Hollywood legends and real life. The recent HBO film, Hemingway & Gellhorn, Hemingway’s son Patrick said, is “so ...

I want to find more evidence of Gellhorn, but that’s an impossible task in the south-facing bedroom, where one closet is full, floor to ceiling, of Hemingway’s shoes, and tourists press in from the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ernest Hemingway endures: his inimitable writing; his dramatic death by ...

For any filmmaker, dramatizing the life and times of a well-known and highly documented individual frequently stands as a no-win situation. Change too much and people will question your ethics as a ...

Early on in HBO’s Hemingway and Gellhorn, I kept thinking, “What a crock!” almost every time Hemingway (Clive Owen) or Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) opened their mouths. Then I got into the rhythm ...

A slew of actors have joined Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman in the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn. The biopic, exec produced by James Gandolfini and directed by Phil Kaufman, recounts the tumultuous ...

War reporting isn’t fascinating, but that doesn’t stay true when globally celebrated writer Ernest Hemingway and trailblazing journalist Martha Gellhorn step into the picture. There’s something about ...

Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen are convincing in Philip Kaufman’s kaleidoscopic biographical study, which will premiere on HBO on May 28. By Todd McCarthy Hemingway & Gellhorn Nicole Kidman Clive Owen - ...

HBO’s “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” airing Monday night, is quite the slab of literary ham. Intending to re-create the torrid romance between two of the 20th century’s most talented writers, this fanciful ...

An overlong period piece that's earnest and handsome, true, but strangely inert, and perhaps because Ernest Hemingway's larger-than-life persona is so familiar, frequently feels stilted and cliched.