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The new Netflix movie Tick, Tick… Boom! is a very unusual biopic. Typically biographical dramas focus on the successes of their subjects. This movie… not so much. In the winter of 1990, struggling composer Jonathan Larson suffered an existential crisis on the eve of his 30th birthday. Having spent years crafting his first full-length musical, […]
I am an unashamed fan of movie musicals. If your film is at all cohesive and features sequences of the characters singing and dancing, chances are I’m gonna be on board. Honestly, a movie musical has to really drop the ball or misinterpret its source material in order for me to not be on its […]
Based on the hit Broadway musical, In the Heights is set to be the feel-good film of the summer. In the Heights is set in Washington Heights, a Hispanic district of New York City that’s slowly being gentrified. This district has a close community with its members having different dreams. There’s Usnavi (Anthony Ramos), a man in […]
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats was one of the longest-running musicals on the West End and Broadway. But the film adaptation was in development hell for years until now. What we got is the most ill-conceived big-budget films in a long time when adapting it. One-night Victoria the White Cat (Francesca Hayward) gets dumped in a bin bag […]
Frozen is arguably Disney’s most successful animated film, it certainly is from a financial standpoint. Disney has been milking that film ever since by making shorts, licensing the property, and now the first theatrical sequel for one of their famous princesses. Since the events of the first film, Arendelle has entered into a time of peace, […]
You dream about going up there, but that is a big mistake… There is nothing that better captures the magic of late 1980s/early 1990s Disney than the Disney character Sebastian trying to convince mermaid Ariel that the “human world” is a mess in the film The Little Mermaid, but Sebastian (this time played by Shaggy) […]
Tom Hooper has two upcoming projects due to come out in the near future: the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials and an adaptation of Cats. This means it is a great time to revisit his adaptation of the musical Les Misérables. Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) was a man who was released on parole after serving a 19-year sentence for stealing […]
Disney has continued the mining of their animated classics for box-office gold. 2019 sees the studio going for a triple whammy of cinematic remakes – concluding with a “live-action” remake of The Lion King. In the African Savannah a new crown prince is revealed to the animals. The birth of Simba (JD McCracy/Donald Glover) means the power-hungry Scar […]
Yesterday is a film that has gathered some of the biggest talents in British entertainment. It was produced by Working Title Films, directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle, written by Richard Curtis, and centred on the music of The Beatles. Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a struggling musician who is prepared to give it up after one […]
Aladdin is the latest live-action remake of a Disney animated classic. The studio has given themselves a titanic task considering the legacy of the 1992 film and Robin Williams’ performance as the Genie. Aladdin (Mena Massoud) is a thief with a heart of gold living on the streets of Agrabah. Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott) is a […]