You know, I don’t know that I would classify Adam McKay’s new film Don’t Look Up a comedy, only because it emphasized that already hopeless feeling that I have for the state that our world is in today. Did I find it funny, though? Oh, of course I did. If I can’t laugh at the state we are in, then I’ll just end up crying … Continue reading Don’t Look Up (2021): So Close to Home That it’s Almost Hard to Watch
Movie musicals are never easy to make. You have to figure out who you want to please more: the musical theater fans or the movie crowd because there is not actually a lot of crossover there. And I don’t know that The Prom appeases either set of fans. Directed by Ryan Murphy, The Prom is a film based on the musical of the same name … Continue reading The Prom (2020)
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania. At the start of The Deer Hunter, we hear a beautiful melody that sounds too content, too happy, and too sweet to possibly be the theme to a film about the horrors of the Vietnam War. However, the film … Continue reading 53. The Deer Hunter (1978)
If you know me at all, you know that one of my favorite films is 1964’s Mary Poppins. I put off watching Mary Poppins Returns for ages because I just had a feeling that I would be disappointed. Then, one day, the movie arrived at my door because I, stupidly, forgot to decline it from the Disney Movie Club. I realized, realistically, I was never … Continue reading Movie Musical Monday: Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
If you know me in person, chances are you have already heard my opinions on this film. Due to the sequel being released this upcoming weekend, I find it fitting that Mamma Mia! be this weeks Movie Musical Monday. I will start with my issues with the film, and then end on a good note. PIERCE BROSNAN CAN’T SING. There. That’s my biggest issue with … Continue reading Movie Musical Monday: Mamma Mia!
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)
“Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie’s narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.” Let me begin by saying that I was … Continue reading 91. Sophie’s Choice (1982)
