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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everybody’s watching Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Well, sort of. Although Roku’s original music biopic parody hasn’t been seen by literally everyone on Earth as Weird Al Yankovic claims, it did set ...

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.

Austin’s weirdness has died many deaths. Generations of Austinites say it's no longer weird, while others argue you just need ...

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, ...

A knowingly over-the-top satirical biopic portrays "Weird Al" Yankovic as a geek who became an absurdly big star, but its central joke is that it understands he was just a scavenger. The movie, to its ...