FILM: Trumbo

Bryan Cranston seems to be one of those forgotten actors (you know his as Walter White from Breaking Bad) - people don't go on about his brilliant acting like they go on about, eg, Leo DiCaprio or Johnny Depp.
Bryan Cranston outdoes himself in this film.
(True story) Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter in the late 1940s. Jailed and blacklisted for being a communist in America, Trumbo and his political friends find a way around their blacklisting using pseudonyms for their works. It is discovered that Trumbo secretly wrote award-winning films like Roman Holiday and Spartacus.

Cranston is brilliant in this intellectual and political drama.
I thought the film was good - there was only one thing keeping it from being fantastic. Helen Mirren.

Helen Mirren is one of those incredibly famous actresses who, I think, is rarely actually good in anything. Her character in this film is portrayed in a very simplistic way - 'I'm not a nice woman because I'm just not'. That kind of character...

It's an interesting look at the communist scare in America in the 1940s, and it's always interesting watching Cranston tackle another character.