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Yesterday Review: All You Need Is… Perfect Recall of Every Beatles Lyric

Jason Gorber — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:00:40 +0000

Parts of Yesterday, the high concept rom-com from director Danny Boyle and scribe Richard Curtis, feel as cloying and derivative as most pop music, with tired tropes of unrequited love and wild adventures, all with the subtlety of episodic television. And yet, in many ways, Yesterday is also kind of glorious. The storyline, about a...

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Review: Wishing Every Show Was the Last Show

Jason Gorber — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:00:57 +0000

Let’s take it as fact that ABBA is one of the greatest, most infectious musical groups ever assembled, a brilliant ray of Scandinavian sunshine pop that thumps its disco beats into one’s heart. Let’s also admit that “jukebox musicals” take even more suspension of disbelief than straight-ahead musicals, slamming song after song from disparate contexts...

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‘Baby Driver’ Review: The Wright Stuff

Philip Brown — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:00:37 +0000

‘Baby Driver’ might not even be the biggest Hollywood movie hinged on car chases to hit screens this year, but it’s easily the most joyful flick spat out of the studio machine during popcorn season. Edgar Wright’s latest is a musical cinematic treat set to a killer playlist and featuring some of the most delightful...

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‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ Review: Prim and Proper Blood-Soaked Entertainment

Philip Brown — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 20:00:42 +0000

Essentially, ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ is one long feature-length joke summed up fairly well by its title. However, something about the way the filmmakers and actors so steadfastly and seriously commit to that joke is goddamn delightful. Adapting from Seth Grahame-Smith’s bizarre and almost inexplicably successful parody novel, writer/director Burr Steers (‘Igby Goes Down’)...

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‘Cinderella’ Review: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Reboot

Philip Brown — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:00:29 +0000

If you told me 10-15 years ago that there would be a live action ‘Cinderella’ movie directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by half the directors of ‘American Pie’, I would have told you to “Shut yo mouth” like one of the backup singers in ‘Shaft’. Yet here we are many moons later, and not...

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