With rare exceptions (like Control and, oh, I don't know, the masterpiece that is Selena), biopics are usually just straightforward, throwaway, lie-filled award bait. That's all fine and harmless, but it still doesn't change the fact that almost every single biopic is exactly the same, and that the marketing for each of them doesn't even remotely try to disguise this. Which is weird, because it's not like the moviegoing public as a whole is like, devoted to the "humble beginnings/wows a label guy on a chance meeting/gets famous/fame ruins his life/is redeemed at the end" formula or anything. Certainly not in the way they are with romantic comedy and horror conventions, anyway. But hey, I'm not a focus group runner, so I can't be sure.

It's a brave new world for Movies Without Pity!

In an effort to make the various MWOP blogs as easy-to-keep-track-of as possible, "DVDS Unwrapped" and "Reviews of Movies We Haven't Seen" are both being folded into the Moviefile, making it your one-stop-shopping destination for all things motion-picturesque! New postings will be filed under those category names, so you can find what you're looking for, but all of the older DVD reviews and unseen movie reviews will be archived in their old blogs. So if you ever want to look up that old DVD review of The Dark Knight, or our pre-emptive review of Beverly Hills Chihuahua, here's where to go:

DVDS Unwrapped Archive

Reviews of Movies We Haven't Seen Yet Archive

And if you're looking for reviews of TV on DVD, check out the Telefile!