Next, we have "Backstage Pass", which is essentially Universal’s common "Spotlight on Location". In the 24-minute featurette, we are offered some interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, but way too many clips from the film. Ironically, given the anti-corporate slant of the movie, this ...
‘The Last Showgirl’ Review: The Casting Is More Interesting Than the Part in Pamela Anderson’s Not-Quite-Comeback A fearless Jamie Lee Curtis steals the show in Gia Coppola's disappointing backstage look at an end-of-the-line Vegas dancer, upstaging the ex-'Baywatch' star in a part ...
‘Your trophies a shadow! Wretched life, followed by death. (Shades of Macbeth’s ‘This mortal life.’) Eerie wind soloists for the scene changes, Handel’s musical theatre is given another dimension by the Musicians of the Prince of Monaco on original instruments, (director Gianluca Capuana)...
Showgirlsis a catalogue of professional, cinematic grace notes. The song Nomi dances to at the Cheetah that entices Cristal for the first time is Prince’s “319,” which turns out to be the number of Cristal’s hospital room late in the film; the tables have turned, but the seduction ...
Review: ‘Being the Ricardos’ a worthwhile trip back in time, backstage with Lucy and DesiRead full article: Review: ‘Being the Ricardos’ a worthwhile trip back in time, backstage with Lucy and Desi It’s been widely reported that this is Daniel Craig’s last turn as James Bond. Rev...
A trouper. This is relevant, because her one bad “moment” is not unconnected to director Ivo Van Hove’s casting of her in this new musical by Rufus Wainwright, based quite loosely by the director himself on a film by John Cassavetes . For it is about a female I ha gielg...
If my account of principles in the last show operating backstage and building sets in this one makes it sound a bit jolly- am-dram, be assured it is not. Professional, skilful and funny, it is one of the best children’s Christmas shows Carrick has done, and the finest anywhere I ...
“A Chorus Line” is the quintessential backstage musical, a celebration of the lives and hard times of the gypsy dancers who turn up by the hundreds to audition for a handful of jobs on Broadway. It takes years of brutal hard work to become a good-enough dancer to dare to go to an ...
Much credit to Martin here for differentiating teen from adult in tastefully understated ways; the growth and grime that Celeste shoves her through shines through as adult Eleanor withstands verbal barrages one moment, then caresses her tormentor sister's head backstage in the next.The young ...
After all the rumors, all the negative publicity, all the stories of fights on the set and backstage intrigue and imminent bankruptcy, Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club” is, quite simply, a wonderful movie. It has the confidence and momentum of a movie where every shot was premedit...