‘The Sparks Brothers’ Review: Edgar Wright’s Irresistible Celebration of 50 Years of Art-Pop’s Brightest Sparks - Variety
‘The Sparks Brothers’ Review: Edgar Wright’s Irresistible Celebration of 50 Years of Art-Pop’s Brightest Sparks - Variety ‘The Sparks Brothers’ Review: Edgar Wright’s Irresistible Celebration of 50 Years of Art-Pop’s Brightest Sparks - Variety Posted: 30 Jan 2021 05:30 PM PST How to introduce an entity as mercurial as Sparks, the band that forms the subject of Edgar Wright 's fantastic, fond, fizzy documentary portrait, to those who don't know them? With over five decades and 25 albums' worth of music, sibling frontmen Ron and Russell Mael have been virtually the only constant in a group whose lineup has changed with roughly the frequency of iPhone updates, and whose sound pinballs around the pop-musical map, from glam-rock to prog-rock to electro to disco to techno. So maybe, given their fondness for the French New Wave, we'll just say: one sings, the other doesn't. Or, as suggested by a great cl...