*There was a time in my hometown Detroit when everything seemed so magical! As I watched the movie “Respect” about the life of Aretha Franklin this past weekend, I was reminded of that space in time.

The tag line for the latest biopic about an American icon reads: “Find out what it means.” Good luck with that. After more than two hours of the new messy Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect,” it’s not ...

'Respect' screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson speaks with Showbiz Cheat Sheet about writing the Aretha Franklin biopic. Scott Wilson addressed how she chose which songs to include in the movie, and even ...

Respect covers 20 years of Aretha’s (Jennifer Hudson)’s life and career. In Detroit in 1952, Ree (Skye Dakota Turner) lives with her father Clarence (Forest Whitaker). Clarence is a preacher for whom ...

Tom Santilli is a respected journalist and member of the Critics Choice Association, Detroit Film Critics Society and Online Film Critics Society since 2010. Tom is the Executive Producer and co-host ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- "Respect," the movie about "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin, is now playing in theaters. Getting the Queen of Soul's look just right involved a call to the one man who created ...

“Respect,” the Aretha Franklin biopic, opens in theaters Friday, Aug. 13. It chronicles the story of Franklin’s life, which she kept private, in a fictionalized manner. Before you see the film, here ...

Aretha Franklin deserved a better movie than “Respect.” But it will do for now. For those who watched Franklin’s meteoric rise in the 1960s and ’70s, she, like so many of her peers, became famous ...

Aretha Franklin. Some voices fill up a room, but her’s fills up a stadium and then some—which is why her legacy continues to endure. We move now from the dramatic to true life. This beautiful, ...

All Aretha Franklin’s family is asking is for a little respect from the makers of “Genius: Aretha,” National Geographic’s recently released biographical series about the legendary soul musician.

The world of music is in mourning this weekend, following the passing of legendary singer Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, on Thursday at the age of 76. Tributes have been pouring in from the great ...

The tag line for the latest biopic about an American icon reads: "Find out what it means." Good luck with that. After more than two hours of the new messy Aretha Franklin biopic "Respect," it's not ...