Yesterday and Cinema’s Best Jukebox Musicals Carmen Paddock June 26, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Yesterday, which opens in the UK this week, imagines a world where Sergeant Pepper, Eleanor Rigby, and a yellow submarine live only in the mind of Jack Malik – a street musician whose life changes when he is...
Gotta Dance: The Top 10 Original Movie Musicals Carmen Paddock November 27, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 This week sees the release of Anna and the Apocalypse, a Christmas zombie musical comedy set in small town Scotland. There is a lot to unpack in that description. Today, let’s celebrate the fact that the...
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again – Review Tom Bond July 20, 2018 Reviews Whether Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again reads like a cheer or a threat depends entirely on how much you enjoyed the first film. Let’s be honest, you know exactly what you’re getting here. Nominally a Mamma...
Mamma Mia! at 10: A Fun, Feminist Legacy Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan July 17, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia The faults of Mamma Mia! are well known; the singing is bad, the choreography is simple, and the plot is weak. Its strengths, on the other hand, are barely mentioned – strange for a film that made...