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...…
Awards Season… Movie #23 2022: West Side Story (2021) 12 Mar 202211 Mar 2022 Musicals have always been a part of my life. Not only do I simply love them, but I've been in a lot of them. Training in musical theatre for twelve…
Comedy… Movie #218 2021: Little Shop of Horrors (1986) 10 Nov 20211 Nov 2021 Fun fact for you: my girlfriend works in theatre management. Bet you didn't know that. But why am I telling you this? Well, never mind Little Shop of Horrors, imagine…
Drama… Movie #177 2021: In The Heights (2021) 10 Jul 20215 Jul 2021 Ahhhhh, I finally got to see In The Heights last week! As a HamilStan (as so many people are), I was buzzing for it. For those who don't know, In…
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 #156 2021: Beaches (1988) 12 Jun 202111 Jun 2021 Classic eighties melodrama? With Bette Midler? Count me in. Beaches is one of those weird movies that you'd think went straight to video if you didn't research it beforehand. It…
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…
Comedy… Movie #46 2021: Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) 21 Feb 202110 Feb 2021 You may remember me watching the first Sister Act movie back in November of 2020. As it’s a classic, I just couldn’t resist coming back for a second dose of…
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…
Animation… Movie #242 2020: Frozen II (2019) 6 Aug 202030 Jul 2020 Onto a sequel that people (many of them small people) actually wanted now... Frozen II is pretty self explanatory to be honest. I mean, at this point, who hasn't seen…
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