Nowhere Boy found an emotional heart that rang true with that mother-son relationship, which is something traditional musical biopics often struggle with. Of course, there’s no telling what the ...

Not long ago, the title “Nowhere Boy” seemed to accurately capture where the film stood in the awards picture: nowhere. But after some key in-flight showings on British Airways, and given the ...

Nowhere Boy, which was written by Matt Greengalgh (Control) and directed by first-timer Sam Taylor-Wood, uses a variety of books, news sources and first-hand accounts (including the memoirs of ...

Before Nowhere Boy, Taylor-Johnson had been at the height of his Kick Ass fame, a tongue-in-cheek superhero flick where he starred as a high-school-loser-turned-DIY-vigilante.

"Nowhere Boy" stars Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Ann-Marie Duff — all outstanding — as, respectively, the adolescent John Lennon, the aunt who raised him and the erratic mother ...

The formula for biopics is so rote by now, so predictably charted, that director Sam Taylor-Wood should be complimented simply for keeping her tale of John Lennon's coming of age so tightly ...

"Nowhere Boy" is about John before he was fab -- back when he was just John Winston Lennon of Menlove Avenue, Liverpool. Back when he had something to say, and nobody to listen.

Nowhere Boy was a critical smash in its native UK and hits theaters stateside Friday, just in time for what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday this weekend.

“Nowhere Boy” is about a love triangle that involves John Lennon, but he’s the least interesting of the angles. It’s a triangle I don’t remember ever seeing in a movie… ...

A respectable but surprisingly conventional feature-debut effort from Brit artist-turned-helmer Sam Taylor-Wood, “Nowhere Boy” offers a portrait of pop star John Lennon as an angry, ’50s-era ...