Stoned

Wow, what a great movie. How did this one stay under the radar? Just as good as Oliver Stone's The Doors. A must see for all Stones fans. The costumes, scenes, cinematography, acting and music were all top notch. I would... Full review

Wow, what a great movie. How did this one stay under the radar? Just as good as Oliver Stone's The Doors. A must see for all Stones fans. The costumes, scenes, cinematography, acting and music were all top notch. I would... Full review

I was excited to see this film because I thought I'd be rockin' in surround sound to some early Stones music. No musiic. No compelling story. This film has dreary, one dimensional actors who give an uninspired account of the early... Full review

I was excited to see this film because I thought I'd be rockin' in surround sound to some early Stones music. No musiic. No compelling story. This film has dreary, one dimensional actors who give an uninspired account of the early... Full review

You guys, this movie sucks! I agree with one of the last reviews: A chimp could have done better! Don't waste your time or money on this movie. It is totally inaccurate and boring. It is so boring that I fell... Full review

You guys, this movie sucks! I agree with one of the last reviews: A chimp could have done better! Don't waste your time or money on this movie. It is totally inaccurate and boring. It is so boring that I fell... Full review

I was looking forward to this one (despite the negative reviews it got) because of its subject matter - the mysterious death of Rolling Stones guitarist, Brian Jones. However, apart from good central performances - Leo Gregory (Brian Jones), Paddy Considine... Full review

It is gay, It's inaccurate and poorly casted. A chimp could have done better! Stoned fails to represent the band, and their pasion for music.... Full review

It is gay, It's inaccurate and poorly casted. A chimp could have done better! Stoned fails to represent the band, and their pasion for music.... Full review

The opening shots of the film shows an early stones line up under the leadership of Brian Jones getting their first gig. It is stylishly shot in black and white and as they roll through little red rooster a camera takes... Full review

A better, more interesting "Stoned" might have made the case....It's a shame that "Stoned" isn't it.....All the pieces are in place for an incisive tale of Brit-pop ego and madness, but filmmaker Stephen Woolley --.... ... Full Review

Fans of the band will likely be disappointed (its music is represented by a handful of covers), and younger audiences will wonder what the fuss is about. ... Full Review

It's tough to feel pain over Jones' death, in part because Stoned doesn't convince us that he was a great musician or even a particularly compelling personality. This was a cruel act, no doubt ... Full Review

In "Stoned," Woolley charts the rise of the intelligent Cheltenham teenager who excels in music and girls as wholeheartedly as he resists the disciplines of his grammar school. Director and Producer Stephen Woolley has spent the last 10 years researching the events surrounding Brian's ill-fated dip on the night of Wednesday July 2, 1969. ... Full Review

I found it an often exciting film, as lurid and flawed as its subject, but full of arresting moments and images. that's far from the only worthwhile movie ... Full Review

Back in the day, the rock 'n' roll decadence of the Rolling Stones was more than an elderly man on vacation falling out of a coconut tree. ... Full Article

The screening of Stoned marked my first experience with "The Cinema at Penn." I'd been before, when the theater was known as Cinemagic (and all sorts of classy nicknames), and I'd hoped that maybe it would at least smell better... ... Full Article

Its title may ring with pun and promise, but "Stoned" is a flat riff on the short life of Brian Jones, the Rolling Stone who died in his swimming pool on July 3, 1969. ... Full Article

Much like "Sunset Boulevard", "Stoned" pretty much starts from the end, and then works its way through the middle. At the opening, Jones stands at a phone booth attempting to book a gig for his new struggling band, The Rolling... ... Full Article

The final days of one of the truly legendary figures of British rock & roll are explored in this biographical drama, which marks the directorial debut of veteran producer Stephen Woolley. ... Full Article

For fans of The Rolling Stones, the last few months have been a particularly rough time, even for those used to the constant ups and downs of being a follower of the greatest rock band of all time. ... Full Article