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Ronnie James Dio can still be counted as the most beloved figure in the genre, which makes him ideal for a documentary. The guy who popularized the so-called "devil horns" hand gesture wasn't a demon. He just put one on MTV, or at least enjoyed dragging the sinister imagery, even if in real life he looked like a friendly kid from upstate New York who had made it big with a penchant for vaguely mystical imagery and a mountain. Life-size voice that could fill the largest halls. Dio: Dreamers Never Die, the latest in a series of effective and mostly unassuming rock documentaries produced by BMG, doesn't present his subject as a particularly tortured or even complicated guy. It may be the most drug-free documentary ever made about a preeminent figure in hard rock (although a line of coke does make a cameo in the archive footage). But Dio had enough curious turns in his career to justify the length of the movie that has been made about him. Don Argott and Demian Fenton...