Topic: Christian Mckay

Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles might be the least Wellesian film ever made about the great director. Nobody wants to see Linklater, a filmmaker most at home amid the messy back-and-forth of human relationships, try his hand at bending cinematic ...

Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Morgan Freeman seemed fated to play Nelson Mandela. Here, though, Welles' part is more well-rounded and satisfyingly meaty than Mandela's, and newcomer Christian McKay embodies the famed director so seamlessly it ...

Earlier this year, Amy Adams whined her way through Julie & Julia as a modern-day food blogger, when all we really hungered for was more of Meryl Streep's magically right Julia Child. So take the title of Me and Orson Welles as a slight warning. Britain's Christian McKay has already played Welles to great acclaim Off Broadway; his impersonation here is nothing short of astounding. McKay effortlessly captures the man's arrogance, sparring with tireless producer John Houseman (Happy-Go-Lucky's fuming Marsan), but he's even better with Welles ...