Reviews

Unfortunately, the young man in possession of the real winning ticket, Malcolm Smith (Lewis),a nerdy movie fan obsessed with actress Anita Ekberg, is not going anywhere so Steve convinces Malcolm to take a road trip to Hollywood where they plan to sell the car and Steve can introduce Malcolm to his ...

Joe and Kirsten marry and have a child, but eventually alcoholism becomes the glue that is holding their marriage together but the real test of Joe and Kirsten's relationship comes when Joe faces the truth about himself and decides to get sober but Kirsten continues to drink.

Galino kind of missed the boat for me though...I never really got the feeling that she understood the concept of this kind of movie parody and played her role just a little too straight, but for the most part, this movie is a dead on satire of a very popular movie that surprisingly, hasn't held up o...

The 1980 film The Jazz Singer is the second remake of the history-making 1927 film that came to be known as the first "talkie", but this film shamelessly rips off a cinematic legacy and makes a singer's attempt to become an actor look pretty lame.

We also meet Doc (Joe Pantoliano), Sal (Matthew Laurance) and Joann (Helen Schneider) who, along with Frank, all have their homes ransacked as it becomes clear that someone is serious about getting their hands on these tapes and the popular theory is that the only person these tapes could be this im...

The production team brought a real musical authenticity to the story by having the actors record the music live and perform the songs onscreen as they were being filmed and anyone who has ever watched a musical with prerecorded music will immediately be able to tell the difference, giving complete r...

Director Ulu Grosbard (Straight Time; True Confessions)lends a sensitive directorial hand to Stephen Schniff's surprisingly balanced screenplay (based on a book by Jacquelyn Mitchard), which offers a family torn apart by what can only be described as a nightmare, but what the Cappadora family doesn'...

Music is key with Astaire and Rogers and Irving Berlin has provided a clever blend of romance and patter with songs like "We Join the Navy", "Let Yourself Go", "Get Thee Behind Thee, Satan", "But Where are You", and, of course, "Let's Face the Music and Dance".

The film also features lovely cinematography and music and lovely performances from the leads.

Writer and director John Carney has a terrific idea here, creating a realistic movie musical, but when it comes down to it, no matter what kind of musical you're making, it comes down to the music as the sticking point and I just found the music rather uninteresting, even though I liked the fact tha...