S Categories Recap Reviews TV August 3, 2023 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ musical episode hits all the right notes A peculiar quantum improbability wave spurs the crew of the Enterprise to start singing and dancing, and discovering truths about themselves through song.
T Categories Movies Reviews July 15, 2023 Theater Camp is fun, fluffy, and fierce While the mockumentary lacks focus, its stellar cast and humor make it a deft exploration on the joy (and despair) of the theater.
C Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies Reviews May 31, 2023 Come to the Moulin Rouge! where artifice reveals authenticity Baz Luhrmann’s mashup musical piles on the spectacle on its way to embracing true love.
S Categories Reviews TV March 29, 2023 Schmigadoon! Season 2 sends the series into its “changing times” era AppleTV+’s musical comedy leaps into more complex musical pastiches with mixed results.
& Categories Reviews September 10, 2022 “He’s An Artist!” Pink Floyd: The Wall at 40 Alan Parker's psychedelic edifice to the music of Pink Floyd is just as gripping and relevant as it was four decades ago.
E Categories Movies Reviews June 23, 2022 Elvis is a colorful, soulful & frenetic feast for the eyes Baz Luhrmann's biopic of the King is as garish and over the top as you'd expect, but has a heart thanks to Austin Butler
N Categories Movies Reviews June 14, 2022 Neptune Frost is a haunting slice of sci-fi musical Afrofuturism Saul Williams' and Anisia Uzeyman's genre/time-hopping multimedia project is occasionally perplexing but nothing short of mesmerizing.
C Categories Anniversaries Features February 28, 2022 Cabaret at 50: Spectacle can’t hide horror forever Bob Fosse's adaptation of the dying days of Weimar musical remains both gorgeous and haunting a half century on.
C Categories Movies Reviews December 28, 2021 Cyrano struggles to stay on key Joe Wright's newest interprets the classic tale as a musical with uneven results.
D Categories Interviews Movies Podcasts Right on Cue December 27, 2021 David Newman on keeping Bernstein’s music alive for Spielberg’s West Side Story The legendary composer talks about keeping the spirit of Leonard Bernstein's score alive in Steve Spielberg's musical adaptation.