Topical Issues Drive the Finest Cinema of the Past Year
2018 was an interesting year in film. It was a year that didn't pan out the way it was expected....
Mary Poppins Returns With a Marvelous, Mystical, Classical Musical
DIRECTED BY ROB MARSHALL/2018
I suspect many others will call Mary Poppins Returns “practi...
The Abba Musical Sequel is no Dancing Queen
DIRECTED BY OL PARKER/2018
While Mamma Mia! was a fun, Abba-filled, musical with an all-star cast, the sequel is...
Why Edgar Wright and James Gunn Made the Best Musicals of 2017
The Jazz Singer to La La Land, Singin’ in the Rain to Sing Street, Meet Me in St. Louis to Mouli...
Directed by: Michael Gracey/2017
The Greatest Showman is seeking to set itself up THE Christmas movie spectacle you just have to see (apart from Star Wars: T...
Cannon Films Fires an Early Shot Through This Most Fantastically Baffling Musical
DIRECTED BY MENAHEM GOLAN/1980
STREET DATE: JUNE 27, 2017/KINO LORBER
I...
Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, and Agnes Moorhead Headline Barely-a-Musical
DIRECTED BY LEWIS R. FOSTER/1953
STREET DATE: MAY 23, 2017/KINO LORBER
Those...
For the Fools Who Dream... A Much-Needed Musical
DIRECTED BY DAMIEN CHAZELLE/2016
For a high-end lavish movie musical, there's something scrappy and imperfect...
Directors Ron Clements, John Musker, Don Hall and Chris Williams/2016
Sporting 4 directors with such Disney pedigree as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Big Hero 6...
Beatles Songs Don't Let Me Down; Overwrought Plot Does
#35: Across the Universe (2007)
Director: Julie Taymor
It was such an ambitious project, this movi...
