Love & Mercy

Few bands are as iconic as the Beach Boys, who spent years creating a catalog of incredible music. Running the gamut from catchy pop songs to experimental rock, they have a song for every occasion … and for every movie. With the wonderful Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy now available on …

The good movies are supposed to come out in the second half of the year. January through June, that’s the dumping ground; the crap that was so toxic it had to get buried in the winter, followed by the empty-headed excitement of summer blockbuster season.

I know Brian Wilson, the genius behind the great pop group the Beach Boys, had a tough decade or two after the collapse of his band. But to transform from Paul Dano to John Cusack in the span of a couple years? Those are some seriously hard times...

‘Love & Mercy’ – which premiered this week at the Toronto International Film Festival – isn’t the first movie to try to explore the life of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. There was the 1990 television movie ‘Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys,&…