Tag: musical
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Review: West Side Story
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is as joyous as a movie musical can get. It’s a film that aims high and dreams big, and manages to fire on all cylinders. This is Spielberg’s first film since Ready Player One, and by comparison it’s drastically different. In fact, it’s drastically different because this is one of…
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First Time Watch: Fame (1980)
By Christian DiMartino Alan Parker’s Fame was nominated for six Academy Awards and won two, for Best Original Song and Best Score. Yet it sits at a 6.6 on IMDb, which isn’t a bad rating, necessarily, but it seems kind of mixed considering the aforementioned six Oscar nominations. Perhaps the film was well received at…