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 ...
Musical Movies
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 ...
La La Land
I can't name many musicals off the top of my head; I was never a fan of them. Even films such as Les Miserables, The Sound of Music, or even Mary Poppins weren't films that I particularly enjoyed ...
Enchanted
While Disney gets a ton of credit for bringing their animated classics such as The Lion King, Beauty & The Beast, and Aladdin to the world of live-action. Disney has made some fantastic original ...
The Lion King (2019)
Oh, yes. 2019 is a monster of a year for Disney. They have reimagined three of their classics into live-action this year (I am talking about Dumbo and Aladdin) with The Lion King being the big one ...
Aladdin (2019)
Aladdin is probably my favorite of all the Disney Classics. So, I like many others was very excited when it was announced Disney was making a live-action version of the classic Aladdin story. Of ...
