This reboot will not blue you away. There have been three movie realities of the Smurfs where these three apples high blue creatures have sounded more like movie stars than Smurfs. In […]
Smurfs
Juliet & Romeo
Parting isn’t such sweet sorrow here. William Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” is probably my favorite tragedy of his. A tale of forbidden love caught in the middle of a family feud, and […]
Snow White
Heigh Ho! Heigh Ho! It’s home from this remake you go. Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was the animated feature that started it all. It set off a line of […]
Mufasa: The Lion King
Hakuna Matata. This prequel is better than the last time. 30 years have passed and Disney’s 1994 animated musical “The Lion King” is still roaring strong with fans. And the loss of […]
The End
This apocalyptic musical doesn’t hit all the right notes. “The End” is a musical directed by Joshua Oppenheimer (“The Act of Killing,” “The Look of Silence”) and set after the end of […]
Moana 2
This visually stunning and fun sequel needs to go a little farther. The original Disney film “Moana” was a delightful and magical film that gave people a Polynesian princess who shares the […]
Wicked
No one should mourn this Wicked. When Universal Pictures released its film version of the Broadway play of “Cats,” its creepy humanoid cats and bad CGI scared a number of people away, […]
Emilia Perez
An original musical about a cartel leader starting over as a woman. Sometimes I like to think that songs can come in the form of conversations. Meaning that they are singing, but […]
Piece by Piece
A Lego Movie doc that will make you Happy. I felt bad that “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” failed to outgross the original film for Warner Bros., which why we’re […]
Joker: Folie a Deux
This musical-inspired sequel lacks the make-up of the first movie. The first “Joker” from 2019 gave Joaquin Phoenix his first Oscar win as Arthur Fleck, a mentally disturbed man, who transitions into […]
