and not immediately feel like reaching for a Beach Boys album as soon as the credits roll. And that's regardless of age, as I think everyone from nostalgic boomers to the more open-minded millennials ...

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.

Brian Wilson sits at the piano playing the same passage over and over. He loves the harmony. He loves the rhythm -- if only he could discern the melody. Wilson calls another member of the Beach Boys ...

The idea of “the tortured artist” is a familiar one. People often think of Van Gogh cutting off his ear, or Hemingway shooting himself as proof that a “true” artist needs to suffer in order to be “a ...