Hardcore fans of the show were pretty outraged by this one, but they seem to be more angry about the implications involved in the changes than the actual final result. Joel Schumacher had some completely invalid and frankly stupid objections to the … [Continue reading]
De-Lovely
This is not exactly a bad movie, but it should have been much, much better. It’s a Cole Porter biopic (an accurate one, in contrast to the earlier Night and Day), starring Kevin Kline and a bevy of wonderful singers including Natalie Cole, Diana … [Continue reading]
Tupac: Resurrection
There have been any number of documentaries about legendary rapper and urban poet Tupac Shakur, to the point where he had become one of the all-time favorite subjects of the musical documentary genre, but this one stands alone, and far above all the … [Continue reading]
Standing In the Shadow of Motown
This is one of the most eye-opening musical documentaries of all time. It concerns the Funk Brothers…the studio band, comprising about a dozen members, who played on all the Detroit-era Motown tracks, in the process appearing on more hit singles than … [Continue reading]
Life With Judy Garland: Me And My Shadows
This film has been called on the carpet for some minor inaccuracies, but given that it was based Lorna Luft’s biography of her mother, which was in turn based on Garland’s own stories about her life to her daughter, most of the bits of apocrypha are … [Continue reading]
Topsy-Turvy
This is really a delightful movie. It tells the story of the creation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most acclaimed masterpiece, The Mikado (if you’re wondering why I didn’t say their best, it’s because, while I love The Mikado, I still maintain that … [Continue reading]
Fantasia 2000
This is perhaps the most underrated work in the Disney Animated Canon, mainly because people resent it for being a ‘sequel’ to the original Fantasia, and for not living up to that illustrious film. Firstly, it is not a ‘sequel’, at least not in the … [Continue reading]
High Fidelity
It’s often remarked that this is one of the few romantic comedies that is primarily targeted at men rather than women, but its exploration is far deeper and more ambitious than what we normally associate with the term ‘romantic comedy’. It’s a … [Continue reading]