I’ve always suspected Andrew Lloyd Webber’s opus to be one of the cheesier musical concepts, and this big-screen version – complete with squealing guitars, swirling capes and approximately 3.2 billion candles – did nothing to convince me otherwise. This is supposed to be a swooning Gothic romance, but it struck me as a particularly unconvincing

There had to have been an easier way to drag the Bollywood style – that epic, musical method of Indian filmmaking – into Hollywood than this ungainly experiment, which melds Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and musical numbers, all in an Indian setting. As forced as a fake smile, this is multiculturalism at its most

This postmodern musical traces a mythologized love story – that of the doomed affair between a naive young writer (Ewan McGregor) and a nightclub courtesan (Nicole Kidman) in 1899 Paris – but its true concerns are strictly aural and visual: the way the vibrant colors of a cancan dancer’s dress meld into a moving rainbow

“…an homage to/butchering of classic Hollywood musical tropes.”

One of those Hollywood disasters that you almost – and I stress almost – have to see. Francis Ford Coppola made a curious follow-up to the great Apocalypse Now with this, a musical experiment that’s at once gaudy and sterile. The movie has the flash of neon but also its deadening hiss. Neon features prominently

Initially a Broadway musical, which composer Cole Porter adapted from the 1939 film Ninotchka, Silk Stockings takes place during the Cold War in Paris, where a famous Russian composer is caught in a tug of war between American movie producer Steve Canfield (Fred Astaire), who wants to hire him, and the Soviet agents who want