Elvis
I grew up with grandparents who loved Elvis so I was pretty familiar with his music. Add that to the fact that I am a huge Baz Luhrmann fan and a Tom Hanks fan and this was always going to be a movie ...
Musical Movies
Cyrano
I have to be honest and say that I really did not want to watch Cyrano. My wife loves musicals and period-type dramas so I pretty much had to. While I went into this pretty ignorant of what it was, ...
The Bob’s Burgers Movie
The Bob's Burgers Movie is exactly how you do a movie that is based on a TV show. I came into the world of Bob's Burgers rather late, by the time I got round to watching it, four seasons had passed! ...
Rocketman (2019)
Before I watched Rocketman with the wife, I never realized how many Elton John songs I not only knew but also really liked. This is a musical biography of Elton John and it is one of the better ones ...
Respect (2021)
Respect is the 2021 biopic of icon Aretha Franklin which was directed by Liesl Tommy and is her first big feature! I will admit that my knowledge of Aretha Franklin extends to the song Respect and ...
Chicago (2002)
Let's be honest, musicals are hard to like. That's just a straight up fact that they seriously almost never work out well enough to be coherent films, or films with great songs. There have always ...
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007 film)
There's not a popular song on YouTube that doesn't have a "chipmunk" version. Something about hearing your favorite songs sped up is just amusing, and Alvin and the Chipmunks takes that feeling to a ...
West Side Story (2021 film)
The original 1961 movie is one of my wife's all time favorite movies. I knew that we would be going to see West Side Story in the theatre and I am glad we did. The fact that this had Steven Spielberg ...
In the Heights
I must admit that if it was not for my wife my knowledge of musicals would be able to be written on the back of a postage stamp! However, I enjoyed Hamilton on Disney Plus and as In the Heights is ...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Film is a medium in which even above-average ideas can be brought to life in one of the most imaginative ways possible. Tim Burton is a director who's managed to do that quite a few times, and the ...
