One might not expect Weird Al’s biopic to become an awards juggernaut, but that’s what happened. Maybe juggernaut is a stretch, but the film—which is itself a parody, which makes perfect sense, ...

I wake from my bed in the middle of the night, startled by noises outside. Resting next to me on the bedside table is an old oil lamp. I pick it up, hoping to shed some light on the situation, but I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Weird," it turns out, isn't a real biopic. It's a movie that does to the biopic form what Weird Al did to songs like "I Love Rock ...

You would have to (dare to be) stupid to not be excited for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, the “Weird Al” Yankovic bio-comedy starring Daniel Radcliffe as the spoof-master supreme. “Wearing the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a writer myself, I shared this initial irritation at the word "weird." Yes, I laughed when I read the campaign memo from Vice ...

The biopic, set to stream Nov. 4 on The Roku Channel, also stars Quinta Brunson, Evan Rachel Wood, Julianne Nicholson and Rainn Wilson Get ready to get weird! The first trailer for Weird: The Al ...

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, the new musical biopic on the Roku Channel, has two huge questions to answer. How did Alfred Matthew Yankovic become the pop sensation we know and love? And what is the ...

I didn’t think I’d want to watch a fake biopic, especially not one about a real guy in whom I’m actually interested — which is what Weird: The Al Yankovic Story basically is, a parody biopic about a ...

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is the most entertaining musical biography satire since Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Don't expect much truth in the telling here — but do expect some over-the-top fun.

Are you weird? According to Democrats—who have made “weird” a new term of art for Republicans—you’re weird if you get overexercised about the genitalia of Olympic athletes, think childless people ...

Want more Amanda Marcotte on politics? Subscribe to her newsletter Standing Room Only. As much as it pains a professional writer to admit this, "weird" works because of its vagueness and ambiguity, ...