“The Sparks Brothers,” the new documentary from filmmaker Edgar Wright, goes deep into the enigmatic world of Ron and Russell Mael. The two brothers, now in their 70’s, make up the quirky band Sparks.

We like our weirdos in the United States, but they have to be definably weird. Ron and Russell Mael, the brothers who are the rock band Sparks, have been resisting labels for a half-century and over ...

This review was first published at its premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Near the beginning of Edgar Wright’s documentary “The Sparks Brothers,” actor Jason Schwartzman comes on screen to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — They’ve spent more than half a century together as bandmates, putting out dozens of records. But brothers Ron and Russell Mael — the duo behind the art-pop band Sparks — have no ...

Ron was a budding keyboard wizard. Russell knew how to sing, possessing a distinctive falsetto and formidable vocal range. Calling themselves the Urban Renewal Project, then later Halfnelson, they ...

How do you make a rockumentary about an arty pop band many people never heard of? If you’re Edgar Wright of “Shaun of the Dead,” “Baby Driver” and the forthcoming “Last Night in Soho,” you pull ...

During the first few minutes of The Sparks Brothers — superfan Edgar Wright’s 140-minute documentary spanning the 50-year career of shrouded-in-mystery sibling duo Sparks — other superfans like Beck, ...

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Influential, underrated, and overlooked—that has long been the prevailing view of the musical duo Sparks, which counts among its most ardent fans Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, Stephen Morris of Joy ...