In what can best be described as a glitter-smeared trainwreck, Can’t Stop the Music tried to ride the disco wave just as it was collapsing into a rhinestone-studded sinkhole. It’s a musical fantasy loosely inspired by the formation of the Village People, and more accurately, a monument to what happens when camp, chaos, and coke-fueled…
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Xanadu (1980) – Review
With financial musical flops like Doctor Doolittle, Camelot and Hello, Dolly! losing millions at the box office, studios became wary of green-lighting more of the same, but then along came a smash hit called Grease, starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta. It must have seemed like a great idea to cast Olivia in another musical,…
Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy (1976) – Review
There have been many adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” going as far back as the silent era and we even had big-budget 3D extravaganza with Johnny Depp, but in the 1970s we were treated to very unique take on this classic tale. This version came to past due to the popularity of…
“It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman!” (1975) – Review
The first Richard Donner/Christopher Reeve Superman movie was three years away when this Broadway musical adaptation was forced on the unsuspecting public and despite being well-reviewed on Broadway it was the biggest flop to hit “The Great White Way” at that time. This led to the creation of a heavily reworked TV special which was…
Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000) – Review
If you thought the original Titanic sinking was a tragic affair wait until you witness the sinking of common sense and cinematic integrity in this masterpiece of confusion. This is a movie that is a catastrophe of epic proportions and I mean that in the most hysterically funny way possible.