Soul (2020)
Jamie Foxx voices Joe Gardner, a middle-aged music teacher at a New York public middle school. Joe is frustrated by his lack of success toward becoming a professional jazz club musician and trying to...
Category: Musical
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
The third entry in the Bill & Ted franchise had started and stopped for decades, partially because studios thought a reboot with new teenage slackers from San Dimas high school would be better than a...
The Grinch (2018)
The inhabitants of the fantasy town of Whoville are gearing up for their favorite time of year, Christmas, and this year has them trying to be three times more into it than in the...
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Taking its title from what has become Queen’s most defining song, Bohemian Rhapsody is a biopic docudrama that examines the professional and personal life of Freddie Mercury, from his humble origins to becoming the...
The Dirt (2019)
With rock-and-roll biographies coming out seemingly every few months in the wake of big critical and commercial successes like Straight Outta Compton and Bohemian Rhapsody, the time would certainly be ripe for one of the...
Beat Street (1984)
Producer and activist Harry Belafonte’s commercialized slice-of-life drama stars Guy Davis as Kenny ‘Double K’ Kirkland, a South Bronx hip-hop DJ with big dreams, and Jon Chardiet as Ramon, a Puerto Rican graffiti artist...
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Blues Brothers ranks among my favorite films of all time — not the best, just a favorite. With inspiration that never remotely comes close to ceasing, John Landis’ wildly over-budget film is more an experience...
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
Mere words are not going to do justice to the experience of watching Breakin’ 2 Electric Boogaloo, so I would advise just watching it for yourself if you are interested, regardless of anything I have...
Breakin’ (1984)
Wholly dated by today’s standards, but then, all the more reason to watch. Breakin’ (originally titled in production as Breakdance (which it was still called in foreign markets), then Break Dancin’) is an earnest attempt at a feel-good break-dancing...
Krush Groove (1985)
Krush Groove resides firmly on my list of guilty pleasures — a film that generates unintentional laughs from its worst moments, but which only makes me love it all the more for it, to the point...