I take a mortified look at the notorious flop musical adaptation Dear Evan Hansen, where an old man plays the world’s least likable teenager in the least plausible movie ever made.
I was not a fan.
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We’re britches and boots and if that ain’t good enough for you, maybe you should just pack up and git!
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Before she was America’s sweetheart Doris Day was an ambitious show-business striver on the rise in the delightful 1949 movie world musical comedy It’s a Great Feeling!
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Choreographer turned auteur Bob Fosse only made a handful of movies, but they all mattered, including his spectacular debut Sweet Charity and punishingly intense final film, Star 80.
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Singing in the Rain is unique among films widely considered the greatest of all time in being thoroughly, unapologetically vulgar and full of raucous fun.
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You know what movie is tons of fun? Hail, Caesar!
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You know what movie is a goddamn delight? 2007’s Hairspray. What a picture!
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In honor of Charles Grodin month, we take a fond look back at his torrid onscreen romance with Miss Piggy in the delightful 1981 musical heist film The Great Muppet Caper.
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Elvis sings, smirks and spanks his way through paradise in the wonderfully cheesy 1961 uber-Elvis movie Blue Hawaii.
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One of you kind souls paid me to watch and write about the 1996 animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which Disneyfies the shit out of Vincent Hugo’s classic novel yet is still unrelentingly, even perversely grim for a G-rated family cartoon.
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