Tag: musical
WICKED: FOR GOOD Review: Follow-Up To Last Year's Smash Hit Fails To Justify Its Running Time
When studio executives, driven by commercial and not artistic concerns, decide to expand an adaptation of a beloved, long-running Broadway musical, the results will inevitably look and, more importantly, sound like Jon M. Chu’s (Crazy Rich Asians, Now You See...
Opening This Week: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANGEL'S EGG, Plus 2 FYC Contenders and a Drama
Our guide to what's opening this week in movie theaters.
Playback: Bill Condon, Spectacle and Secrets from GODS AND MONSTERS to KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Bill Condon loves a spectacle, not just for the noise or the glamor, but for the ache that hides behind it. The lonely showman, the fading diva, and the monster who only wants to be seen; Condon tells stories where...
NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER Returns from Undeserved Obscurity with a Slick and Sweaty 4K Release
An underseen action classic roars back to life on 4K UHD, plus more new releases from KL Studio Classics.
Fantasia 2025 Review: THE DEVIL'S BRIDE, An Impish Demon Vies For A Mill Owner's Daughter In This Chaotic Musical
Mischievous devil Pinchiukas makes a deal with mill owner Baltaragis to help him marry his true love and ensure the success of his business in exchange for the hand of his daughter in marriage in director Arunas Zebriunas’s raucous 1974...
Sundance 2025 Review: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, Politics, Queerness, and Jennifer Lopez
As illiberalism, authoritarianism, and full-scale fascism take hold on both sides of the Atlantic, art becomes essential as a form of resistance, opposition, and defiance against the powers-that be. Art gains increasing importance and relevance as autocrats and their supporters...
European Film Awards 2024: THE SUBSTANCE Leads with the Most Nominations
The European Film Awards 2024 spotlight The Substance as the frontrunner in nominations, while Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez and The Girl with the Needle shine with critical wins and nods.
Fantasia 2024 Review: CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING, A Gleefully Gory Musical Ten Years In The Making
Bursting with ingenuity and good old fashioned, “come on pals, let’s make a movie!” can-do energy, Sander Maran’s debut feature, Chainsaws Were Singing, is a gleefully gory musical romantic horror comedy that really hits the spot and proves that sometimes...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO 4K Review: An Honest to Goodness Great Film
Ewan McGregor, Gregory Mann, Tilda Swinton, David Bradley, and Christoph Waltz star in the award-winning stop-motion take on the dark fairy tale.
Interview: NEPTUNE FROST, Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman on Their Afrofuturist Musical
Neptune Frost, an Afrofuturist musical directed by multidisciplinary American artist Saul Williams and Rwandan visual artist Anisia Uzeyman, is a stunning film that defies conventions in both content and form. When I saw it in a packed theater at the...
OVER THE MOON Trailer Promises a Bright, Young, Brilliant Girl
The first look at upcoming animated film Over the Moon shows that flights of fancy into space are not necessarily reserved for White people. Directed by Glen Keane, whose career in animation dates back to the 1970s and who won...
Blu-ray Review: DANCE, GIRL, DANCE Was Ahead of its Time
Dorothy Arzner was the first woman in the Director's Guild of America. She was also the ONLY woman director working within the Hollywood studio system in the late 1920s and throughout most of the 1940s. To be more specific, that's...
Review: FROZEN II, Cold to the Touch Yet Still Irresistible
Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel and Josh Gad return for a hotly-anticipated sequel.
Criterion Whips out HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
In its day, John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch fired a major salvo across a great divide that, nearly twenty years later, would prove to be eroded if not torn down -- not unlike the Berlin Wall itself. ...
Toronto After Dark 2019: First Ten Films Include COME TO DADDY, THE WRETCHED And EXTRA ORDINARY
Toronto After Dark have announced the first ten films in this year's lineup. TADFF is the go to genre event of the Fall here in our fair city and the festival continues to bring a collection of festival favorites and...
Asian American International 2019 Review: YELLOW ROSE, Immigration Woes and Country Music Dreams
Diane Paragas' debut feature, with a revelatory central performance by Broadway star Eva Noblezada, offers a unique, finely crafted, and timely take on the issues of immigration and undocumented people.
Review: YESTERDAY, A Truly Fab Tale Full of Magic, Mystery, and a Tour
Danny Boyle directs a new Beatles-themed comedy sure to please, starring Himesh Patel, Lily James and Ed Sheeran.
Review: ROCKETMAN Takes Flight
Elton John biopic blasts Taron Egerton into the star-making stratosphere.
Review: SWING KIDS, Tap Dancing Miracle Will Keep You on Your Feet Long after the Credits Roll
The Korean War tap dancing musical drama you never knew you needed, Swing Kids is a Christmas miracle from one of Korean cinema's most vibrant directors. After works such as Scandal Makers and Sunny, Kang Hyoung-chul has outdone himself with...
Review: ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE, Fantastic, Toe-Tapping Terror
What do you get when you mash up High School Musical, Shaun of the Dead, and The Nightmare Before Christmas? The answer is director John McPhail's brilliant new Christmastime zombie musical, Anna and the Apocalypse, one of the most joyful...
