movie review BACK TO BLACK Running time: 122 minutes. Rated R (drug use, language throughout, sexual content and nudity). In theaters May 17. A basic biopic about Amy Winehouse, the eccentric singer who recorded two albums and then died of alcohol poisoning at the devastatingly young age of 27, was never going to work. Obviously. … Read more
In another life, Sam Taylor-Johnson might have crossed paths with Amy Winehouse. The filmmaker and the singer had some mutual friends, “but we never met,” Taylor-Johnson said recently. “It was like a strange sliding doors moment,” she added: “I would arrive somewhere, and she would have just left.” Taylor-Johnson is the director of “Back to … Read more
Amy Winehouse fans refuse to let her memory fade to black — and there’s an upcoming biopic to prove it. A first-look photo from “Back to Black” — to be distributed by Focus Features — reveals the at star Marisa Abela in costume as the late seven-time Grammy winner. The sneak peek snapshot features the … Read more