Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster is kind of a monster of its own, starting out as promotional footage for the band’s record label, later changing into a proposed reality series to be aired on...
Category: Musical
Top Secret! (1984)
Top Secret! is another laugh-a-minute screwball comedy from the comic minds of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, the trio that brought you Airplane! This time out, they skewer a variety of targets, predominantly war films (World War II, generally), musicals, and...
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Everyone Says I Love You continues the long streak of light Woody Allen comedies in the 1990s, and although this doesn’t really rank as one of his finest works, it is definitely a departure...
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Kind of an oddity in the De Palma oeuvre, as it’s far different from anything he had done before or since. A Rock Opera, as the saying goes, not too far removed from the crazy...
School of Rock (2003)
School of Rock becomes the third recent feel-good comedy to come out with a musical backbone, and when you have a formula that works, it seems unlikely to be the last. So far so good,...
The Fighting Temptations (2003)
There are only two reasons I’m giving The Fighting Temptations a marginal recommendation: great music and it manages to succeed in what it sets out to do, leave you feeling better coming out than going in. ...
History of the World Part I (1981)
If one were to chart Mel Brooks’ directed movies based on quality from the beginning of his career to the end you’d have an almost perfect forward slanting line downward. History of the World Part...
The Lion King (1994)
Disney continues its string of instant classic family films with one of their best in recent years, The Lion King. Essentially, it’s a loose interpolation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” set in the fields of Africa, with...
Chicago (2002)
After hearing about the cast of the lavish musical screen recreation of the acclaimed Bob Fosse production, Chicago, I was very skeptical that such a musical could be pulled off by a cast that isn’t...
8 Mile (2002)
Not knowing very much about 8 Mile before going in other than it starred rapper Eminem, to say I was skeptical would be an understatement. Although a long-time fan of hip hop, Eminem’s style hasn’t appealed...