Love & Mercy director Bill Pohlad made a bold choice with his Brian Wilson biopic: he cast both Paul Dano and John Cusack to play the legendary Beach Boys co-founder at different points in his life.

In Bill Pohlad‘s “Love & Mercy,” the mental breakdown of Beach Boys star Brian Wilson is sensitively followed over the the course of decades, featuring a dual performance by Paul Dano and John Cusack ...

In these opening seconds of “Love & Mercy,” we’re jolted out of the usual and must ask ourselves what we’re seeing — a malfunction of some kind or part of the movie? Thus begins a film that defies ...

“Love & Mercy” director Bill Pohlad is back with another offbeat musician biopic called “Dreamin’ Wild,” which was just acquired by Roadside Pictures (who also released “Love & Mercy”). This time ...

Today, Beach Boys composer and singer Brian Wilson is recognized as a musical genius — but as Friday’s biopic “Love & Mercy” shows, it’s been a rough ride. Wilson, 72, is portrayed in the film by Paul ...

EastWest Studios, a storied Los Angeles recording space, has barely changed since 1965, when the Beach Boys and the fabled session band the Wrecking Crew started recording the classic “Pet Sounds” ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. I went into Bill Pohlad’s Love & Mercy knowing absolutely nothing about it — and by nothing, I mean I didn’t even know what it was ...

Everything that goes right with “Love & Mercy” — it’s the best musical biopic in decades — begins and ends with the shadows lurking in the Beach Boys’ sunniest hit songs about little deuce coupes and ...

It's tough to find a genre that gets lambasted more than the biopic. Every announcement of a new movie chronicling the life of a public figure is accompanied by eye rolls and emphatic sighs. But while ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have ...