Based on Erica Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical (she wrote the screenplay and is married to Peter Dinklage), this movie is based on Edmond Rostand’s classic Cyrano deBergerac, the vain and highly-skilled swordsman whose large nose kept him from wooing the love of his life, Roxanne. In this adaptation, however, well. . . Dinklage, of Game…
When I saw the trailer for Speilberg’s vision of remaking the original 1961 musical, I was shocked to see how good it looked! Could the man who gave us Jaws and E.T. actually pull a hat trick, re-do a classic, and make it watchable? If you know anything about this highly acclaimed 1961 musical,…
If they say that an artist suffers for their art, then no one suffered more than playwright & songwriter Jonathan Larson, who died too young at 35. He only wrote only two musicals, but they were both ahead of their time and filled with tragedy and loss, much like his own life. In this semi-autobiographical…
In yet another attempt to bring a Broadway musical to the big screen, this one has the distinction of NOT being a sprawling, grandiose epic like the others (Cats, Hello Dolly, In The Heights) This is a small-scale, simple story of a teenager, a mistaken letter, lies, and lotsa singing! “Oh, what a tangled web…
If you’re like me and saw the trailer for this Broadway musical turned into a movie, you not only cringed, but thought it might have been someone’s idea of a practical joke. I mean, c’mon! Putting creepy, disturbing-looking CGI cat faces on actors? Seriously? Look, I’m all for realism, but there’s a limit, people. *…
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