Val Kilmer is magnetic as John Holmes, the porn giant who died of AIDS in 1988. But director and co-writer James Cox is less interested in Holmes' big dick, his wife (Lisa Kudrow) and his teen lover (Kate Bosworth) than in Holmes' involvement in a grisly drug-related murder spree in 1981. That means character gets sacrificed for just another true-crime drama.

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."