Films like ‘Last Days,’ ‘Control,’ and ‘I’m Not There’ prove that movies about music need not paint by numbers.

Thirty-two years ago, on Halloween night 1993, talented young actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose and heart failure ...

Scattered – albeit quite thinly – across the floor of the world of film is a collection of music biopics that deigned to do things a little differently. A lot of them managed it simply by focusing on ...