How to bring the Queen of Soul to the big screen with the right amount of glamour and, well, respect? Enter Clint Ramos, who is behind the costumes for the new film about Aretha Franklin, “Respect,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new biopic “Respect” runs through two decades of Aretha Franklin’s life in 2½ hours, starting at age 9 and culminating with ...

A new film about Franklin's early years doesn't entirely avoid biopic conventions, but it still has real intelligence and feeling. The average musical biopic—and most of them are pretty ...

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Fans of Aretha Franklin who didn’t get a chance to see the new star-studded biopic in movie theaters can now watch it at home. On Friday, the 145-minute PG-13 drama launched on video-on-demand ...

At the end of “Respect,” the Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson as the legendary soul singer, a slew of text describes all of the awards, tributes and plaudits the singer received ...

Respect is due to Aretha Franklin, and it is given in "Respect," the classy, reverent biopic that traces Aretha Franklin's rise from the daughter of a Detroit preacher to the internationally renowned ...

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson expertly embodies many aspects of the young Aretha Franklin in “Respect,” but she drew the line when it came to smoking cigarettes in director’s Liesl Tommy’s ...

The average musical biopic — and most of them are pretty average — follows a predictable arc: the troubled childhood marked by flashes of genius; the record deals and hit album montages; the marriages ...