Among Paul McCartney’s high-profile musical collaborations in the 1980s, “Ebony and Ivory” is considered by many the worst. But its three minutes and 45 seconds pale in comparison to the excruciating 86 it takes to watch Jim Hosking’s 2025 film of the same name.
From the writer-director of the cult horror film “The Greasy Strangler,” “Ebony and Ivory” parodies the events that led to the legendary 1982 team-up between McCartney and Stevie Wonder. Yet even by the loose standards of cultural satire or even looser, of outsider art, this two-hander about McCartney and Wonder butting heads in a cabin on the Mull of Kintyre ahead of recording the chart-topping
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