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, Beach Boy wonder, is the latest rock giant to get the biopic treatment, and the result, “Love & Mercy,” takes a life that sounds tailor-made for a formula picture and throws the recipe ...

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, Wilson (John Cusack), under the sway of a controlling therapist, finds a savior in ...

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 ...

Brian Wilson, one of the greatest rock musicians of all time, died yesterday at the age of 82, leaving behind an insurmountable legacy. As the co-founder and principal songwriter of The Beach Boys, he ...

Love & Mercy is a very entertaining biopic of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, and hardly the screaming train wreck I expected when I heard that the legendary songwriter, producer, and arranger would ...

Brian Wilson, the genuinely brilliant and deeply troubled Beach Boys leader who died Wednesday at the age of 82, was fortunate in a way most rock stars aren’t. He was the subject of a biopic that ...

The director and stars of the acclaimed film about The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson discuss the challenges and rewards of making an unconventional drama about an unconventional man. By Scott Feinberg ...

A refreshing biopic on Brian Wilson. Wilson had an abusive father who is believed to be at least partially responsible for Brian's deafness in one ear. Murry Wilson figures in the '60s portion of the ...