When it was announced that Disney would be producing the screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods, fans of the stage musical were nervous as hell. They were excited. Well, excited and scared. You see, Into the Woods is a musical that is easily made for the screen. That was not the problem. The problem was how Disney, a company known for … Continue reading Movie Musical Mondays: Into the Woods (2014)
“Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. He served a dark and a vengeful god. What happened then, well, that’s the play And he wouldn’t want us to give it away. Not Sweeney. Not Sweeney Todd. The demon barber of Fleet Street” These, my friends, are lyrics that you will not hear in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony award winning musical of the same … Continue reading Movie Musical Mondays: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
“A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.” I had never watched this film before and I was, in no way, prepared for what I was about to watch. This was one of those movies that I became more interested in the longer that I watched it. Right from the very beginning, … Continue reading 86. Platoon (1986)
