Star power not enough to carry 'Phil Spector'

Star power not enough to carry 'Phil Spector'

It's hard to say if the willful exclusion of some of the more damning evidence against Spector is a product of a sympathetic filmmaker or simply in keeping with a story told from Kenney Baden's point of view. But Mamet does at least one thing to create

Bruce Handy reviews the HBO movie Phil Spector, in which Al Pacino stars as the bewigged record producer during his murder trial.

In the week leading up to tonight's premiere of the HBO original movie Phil Spector, the pre-release publicity has all been orchestrated around quotes from the film's writer-director, David Mamet, claiming that the movie is not a

“Phil Spector,” starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren and directed and written by David Mamet, is a supremely odd film, and not because Pacino dresses up in a wide variety of wigs and rambles sort of in character, like a set of Pacino ticks coming

Bruce Handy reviews the HBO movie Phil Spector, in which Al Pacino stars as the bewigged record producer during his murder trial.