Jersey Boys
The Tony-award winning musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons gets the cinematic treatment, in Clint Eastwood’s new mob movie with songs. Let’s call it The Sopranos. Jersey Boys awkwardly straddles this […]
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The Wiz
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a fan of unusual interpretations of classic tales – from Homer’s Odyssey in depression era Mississippi to Hamlet in 10th century […]
Guys and Dolls
We love Sesame Street here at Screen Goblin, and their Monsterpiece Theater segments introduced us to some cinematic classics before we’d even heard of cinema. So as a thinly-veiled excuse […]
A Spike Lee Joint: School Daze
Set in Mission College, a black university, School Daze follows a number of characters through their relationships and friendships during the first few weeks of term. This is basically your […]
Rash of Bacon Part 6: Footloose
Set in 1984, before the invention of self-awareness, Footloose follows Ren (Kevin Bacon), a big city boy who moves to a small town where dancing is banned. I don’t like […]
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