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Michael Jackson

June 2026

  • Martha Reeves wearing a pink jumpsuit with white stripes, holding her hand in the air

    Film & Music reader interview
    ‘I can out-dance Bowie and Jagger!’ Martha Reeves on Motown, Dancing in the Street and smashing crockery with Dusty Springfield

    Now 84, the voice of Heat Wave and Jimmy Mack is releasing a new album. She answers your questions on Marvin Gaye, popularising the roundabout and why she hates cover versions of her songs

May 2026

  • Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in Michael.

    ‘We’ve got 25 to 30% already shot’: sequel to Michael Jackson biopic on way, says studio

    Lionsgate’s Adam Fogelson says there is ‘a ton of incredibly entertaining story’ still to tell, which may include unused footage shot for the first film
  • Rebecca Shaw

    Please stop making music biopics. We need a break from this tired genre that is essentially expensive karaoke

    Rebecca Shaw
    With the release of Michael and not one but four Beatles feature films under way, I am once again calling for a moratorium on these films (with one exception)
  • Jaafar Jackson as Michael on the set of the thriller video in the film.

    The Long Wave
    How Michael Jackson’s tarnished image is being cannily rehabilitated

    A new biopic has contributed to an atmosphere that casts the late singer as a profoundly damaged figure who is more victim than victimiser
    Newsletter

April 2026

  • The cast of Michael at the film’s Berlin premiere in April.

    ‘A profound depiction’: Michael Jackson fans support divisive biopic as film smashes records

  • Leaving Neverland film-maker Dan Reed.

    ‘A false narrative around a paedophile’: Michael Jackson biopic criticised by Leaving Neverland director

  • Jaafar Jackson in Michael, directed by Antoine Fuqua.

    Michael smashes UK records for biggest biopic opening

  • Man with Jheri curl and elevator-attendant-style jacket stands on riser in middle of New York City street with dozens on hands in the air reaching toward him.

    Michael might be a cowardly, cursed biopic but his fans are happy to live in a fantasy

    Jesse Hassenger

  • Michael is a highly selective version of the singer’s life, and that suits more people than you might think

    Nadia Khomami

  • Michael moonwalks to $217m opening weekend, shattering box office records for a biopic

  • The Sunday read
    Bad movies, good business: how sanitised biopics became a Hollywood staple

  • From Michael to Back to Black, many authorised music biopics are becoming bland propaganda. Fans deserve more

    Simran Hans

  • Today in Focus
    The new Michael Jackson biopic. Why now? – podcast

    Podcast30:09

  • Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Michael review – cliched Jackson biopic is bland, bowdlerised … and bad

  • Can a new biopic change your mind about Michael Jackson?

  • TV tonight
    TV tonight: Keke Palmer and Jack Whitehall’s reboot of The ‘Burbs

  • TV review
    Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy review – a valiant attempt at balance

  • ‘Occasionally a picture can change the course of history’: 33 scandalous photos that shocked the world

March 2026

  • Woman in sparkly outfit

    The Taylor Swift effect: US vinyl sales top $1bn for the first time since 1983

    Swift leads the 2025 vinyl charts with 1.6m sales of The Life of a Showgirl while Sabrina Carpenter and Kendrick Lamar round out the top three

February 2026

  • Michael Jackson arriving at Santa Barbara County courthouse in June 2005

    TV review
    Michael Jackson: The Trial review – these unheard recordings of the singer make for alarming listening

    This troubling documentary charts the events leading up to and surrounding Jackson’s 2005 trial for molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo (of which he was found not guilty) – and features newly released tapes of Jackson
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