Billie Holiday “an illustration of the nasty impulses that spell out Daniels’s interest in degradation.” Forget the movies. If you do care about jazz, Billie Holiday is simply in the ...

Director Lee Daniels was in the midst of wrapping up his latest movie — The United States vs. Billie Holiday, which tells the story of the late, troubled jazz singer and how “Strange Fruit ...

It’s a shame, because it would have made for a much more interesting and watchable movie. Billie Holiday deserves a well-made biopic about her. “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” just ...

Read on as we detail how to watch The United States vs Billie Holiday online and stream the 2021 movie on Hulu today. The United States vs Billie Holiday chronicles Lady Day's rise to superstardom ...

Billie Holiday” makes as strong a case for Holiday ... but about 1940s jazz instead of modern-day hip hop. Daniels’ movie is best when he hangs back and doesn't cut scenes off just as they ...

And we knew we wanted to tell a story about Billie Holiday. And the film is called “Billie.” And 90 percent of the movie or more is about Billie Holiday. She is the star — it’s her tragedy ...

Andra Day is accustomed to stepping onto the stage as herself. But now, she transforms on the silver screen playing famed jazz singer Billie Holiday. "I was excited as a fan of Billie Holiday ...

Billie Holiday." Our jazz critic and jazz film-follower Kevin Whitehead has this review. KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: The movies have not been kind to Billie Holiday. In the 1935 Duke Ellington short ...

The whole movie is not a biopic. It’s really about the government taking her down. We’re not telling Billie Holiday’s entire story as Lady Sings The Blues did. We're just telling a moment in ...

Billie Holiday? She sang a song the government ... as Johann Hari writes in his book “Chasing the Scream,” on which the Holiday movie is based. A sort of mini-Hoover, he saw the singer ...

Billie Holiday was Motown’s immediate predecessor. It’s obvious she was an influence, and Gordy made that clear with his first movie: ‘Lady Sings the Blues.’” Payne believes “Berry ...