Modernizing Little Orphan Annie is certainly not a bad idea as one would have a hard time releasing a movie today featuring a war profiteer who rails against organized labour and is portrayed as an idealized capitalist and not be the film’s bad guy. Adopting a dozen red-headed moppets couldn’t soften that image for today’s…
Tag: musical
Bugsy Malone (1976) – Review
Everyone loves gangster films, James Cagney, Paul Muni, and Humphrey Bogart lit up the silver screen for years portraying some of the toughest mugs in cinema, but director Alan Parker took a decidedly different angle with Bugsy Malone, the entire cast consists of children averaging twelve years of age and also it’s a musical, and…
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) – Review
Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise is a hard movie to classify, it’s not really a musical but it is chock full of music, it’s not a straight horror film because who the actual monster turns out to be is not who you’d expect and it’s darkly satiric, but what Phantom of the Paradise is…