Elvis Presley starred in over 30 films during his legendary career, though not all stand equal in reputation. For every iconic movie like Jailhouse Rock, there are lesser efforts dismissed as formulai...
The early 1940s saw Hollywood embrace fanciful musicals as perfect escapism from the anxieties of World War II. And few films brought more bubbly farcical fun than 1943’s Du Barry Was a Lady, starring...
The late 1920s saw cinema undergo a revolution with the emergence of “talkies”. Among the earliest talkies to integrate sound and image was The Broadway Melody, MGM’s pioneering back...
Dangerous When Wet is a 1950s musical about the power of performance enhancing drugs. There is also a hallucinatory fantasy involving Tom and Jerry swimming with Esther Williams. Does that sound inter...
In 1995, an eclectic gem of French cinema emerged from the auteur Jacques Rivette, with his film “Up, Down, Fragile” (“Haut bas fragile”). A delightful mix of mystery, comedy, ...
Blue Hawaii is the reason why Becket got made. Focus on that, rather than Angela Lansbury playing Elvis’s mother. I put that there as a preface because of our younger readers’ inability to...
What is Ziegfeld Girl? Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 MGM musical jaunt that was one of the last major feature film journeys back to the age of Vaudeville. More than that, it was an acting showcase for Judy ...
Gold Diggers of 1933 is famous for introducing We’re in the Money into the American songbook. But, what has become of the Gold Diggers in the nearly 90 years that have followed? Arriving 4 years...
Encanto was not met with a ton of fanfare when first announced by Disney. Then, it became the darling favorite of TikTok. How did we get from Point A to Point B in such a short amount of time? The ans...
Expresso Bongo is a very specific satire of the music industry. By that, I mean it’s a Post World War II and Pre British Invasion examination of popular music. Laurence Harvey plays a scummy age...