The Band Wagon: Now That’s Entertainment
GET ABOARD! As a kid, I remember being fascinated by the video for Michael Jackson’s ”Smooth Criminal”, released in…
Gigi: A Belle Époque Girl
THE FIRST LERNER-LOEWE MUSICAL SINCE "MY FAIR LADY". There’s a moment in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) where…
Moon Over Miami
POOR GIRL'S PARADISE! TWO SISTERS STORM THE MIAMI MILLIONAIRE COLONY! Two sisters (Betty Grable, Carole Landis) working as carhops…
Mary Poppins Returns
IN A PLACE WE HOLD DEAR, WHERE WONDER ONCE LIVED... BUT SOON FROM ABOVE, A NEW STORY BEGINS. 20…
Mary Poppins: Sorting Out the Bankses
IT'S SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS! The story of how Walt Disney convinced the British-Australian author P.L. Travers to let him turn her…
A Star Is Born: Garland’s Rebirth
DESTINY CAME AT HER WITH A LEER! This film was never easy to make from the start, but the…
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Ten years after Mamma Mia! we’re getting this franchise’s answer to The Godfather, Part II (1974) – the story…
Aladdin: Arabian Anarchy
IT IS NOT WHAT IS OUTSIDE, BUT WHAT IS INSIDE THAT COUNTS. In 1992, Disney was on a roll.…
An American in Paris: Art, Dance & Romance
WHAT A JOY! IT'S M-G-M'S TECHNICOLOR MUSICAL! ”An American in Paris” first saw the light of day in 1928.…
Cabaret: Fun Before the Führer
LIFE IS A CABARET. It’s often been said that the traditional Hollywood lost its way in the 1960s, making…
Sound of Music: Still Climbing Ev’ry Mountain
RADIANCE THAT FLOODS THE SCREEN... AND WARMS THE HEART! The movie is too good to be true. The real-life…
Dancer in the Dark
YOU DON'T NEED EYES TO SEE. In 1964, Czech immigrant Selma Ježková (Björk), who’s nearly blind, is working in…
Beauty and the Beast
BE OUR GUEST. When her father (Kevin Kline) is taken prisoner by a beast (Dan Stevens) inside a huge,…