A star is born: has the beardy bloke music biopic had its day?

With the arrival of Lady Gaga’s star turn, Natalie Portman’s Vox Lux and Elisabeth Moss’s Her Smell, the murky world of female pop stardom finally gets immortalised on screenLooking at this season’s awards contenders, it is clear quite a few female actors have had the same idea: portray a pop star, one who is about to be chewed up by the music industry. Preferably in a movie whose title sounds like a Nirvana song.Take Vox Lux, which sees Natalie Portman chasing a seco...

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