Animation… Movie #38 2023: The Little Mermaid (2023) 12 Jun 20236 Jun 2023 Don't shoot me: I've never seen the original The Little Mermaid from 1989. Yes, I know it's one of the more universally loved Disney princess films, but I come from…
Comedy… Movie #21 2023: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (2022) 20 Mar 202320 Mar 2023 There truly has been a lot of musical-to-film adapting in recent times, hasn't there? In the last few years alone we've had The Prom, Everyone's Talking About Jamie, Tick, Tick...…
Comedy… Musical Review: Beetlejuice (Marquis Theatre, Broadway, NYC) 2 Sep 202225 Aug 2022 Surprise! So you thought The Quayside Review was just a movie blog, huh? Well, have I got news for you? My wife has been insisting for a while now that…
Drama… Movie #223 2021: tick, tick…BOOM! (2021) 29 Nov 202129 Nov 2021 Know what's weird? I love Rent and Jonathan Larson's legacy. I love Hamilton and Lin-Manuel Miranda's overwhelming talent. But I did not expect for one second to love tick, tick...BOOM!…
Classics… Movie #165 2021: Funny Girl (1968) 21 Jun 202116 Jun 2021 After a slew of pretty new releases, I thought it would be best to go back in time a little bit. Everything I've watched recently has either been an eighties…
Classics… Movie #153 2021: Cabaret (1972) 9 Jun 20213 Jun 2021 Like so many other people in the UK, I really miss the theatre. Musicals are joyous, camp and so fun 90% of the time, and anyone who says otherwise must…
Classics… Movie #290 2020: Sister Act (1992) 3 Nov 202027 Oct 2020 Classic. Funny. Daring. Entertaining. That's Sister Act. A young(er) Whoopi Goldberg plays singer/waitress Deloris in this early-nineties movie musical. We begin the movie with a murder - not what I…
Comedy… Movie #241 2020: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) 3 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 The thing about sequels is that they're rarely necessary (the obvious aside, e.g. The Godfather 2.) Saying that, even some of the unnecessary ones are brilliant (e.g. Toy Story 2.)…
Drama… Movie #166 2020: The Greatest Showman (2017) 22 May 202019 May 2020 Do you ever have those movies that are insanely popular at the time but you just have no desire to see them whatsoever? That's The Greatest Showman for me. Although…
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