West Side Story
Two basketball teams, both alike in dignity / in fair Manhattan, where we lay our scene. So doesn’t begin Sondheim and Bernstein’s West Side Story. Set in New York City, 1957, this […]
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Fiddler on the Roof
The Jewish community of Anatevka lives a modest but peaceful life in tsarist Russia. Farmer Tevier (Topol) works hard for his family, and dreams of marrying off his five daughters […]
La La Land
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone play a jazz pianist and actress respectively, who both pursue their dreams in sunny Los Angeles. She has high aspirations as an actress and he […]
Frozen
I finally set out to watch the phenomenon and biggest-grossing film of 2013 when stuck for 11 hours on a plane, but it’s actually not a very good plane movie. […]
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! is clearly a film made by people who love ABBA. This is evidenced by their absolute conviction that ABBA songs, even ABBA songs sung and staged horribly, require […]
I’ve Never Seen… The Sound of Music
How have I gone 24 years without seeing The Sound of Music, the film that trounced Gone With the Wind‘s box office record? It’s a particular marvel since I realised […]
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd hit the big screen in 2007, courtesy of artist, director and David Cameron’s friend Tim Burton. In one of the great shock casting decisions of the […]
London Road
Adapted from the stage, London Road is a musical about the “Suffolk Strangler” murders of 2006, using the real words of members of the community. Think Creature Comforts meets the […]
Singin’ in the Rain
Looking though one of those lists of the 100 greatest films or something, this was the first one I hadn’t seen. I say I hadn’t seen it; what I mean […]
Hairspray (2007)
Baltimore has had numerous depictions on film and TV, ranging from The Silence of the Lambs to The Wire. But in Hairspray, it’s a city overrun not with serial killers […]
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