The nearly shelved bodybuilder thriller “Magazine Dreams” finds new life being both pulverizing and showing the lonely male ...

Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams” opens on images of a man in on a runaway as his barely-clothed body is embraced by light. It’s a warm yet lonely image, and that contradiction invests it ...

The grueling character study “Magazine Dreams” has had a rocky road to the screen, fighting uphill against everything that fate, its star and arguably its director could throw against it.

Magazine Dreams is an eye-catching drama that comes within inches of genuine insight. As a tale of male body image, it’s uniquely poised to dig into a subject few other American films have touched.

Magazine Dreams has finally received a theatrical release and, as always, a part of the audience might be wondering whether the film is based on a true story.