Tag: Musicals

• The Last Dragon (1985)

  April 6, 2020

  1980s, Action, Comedy, Martial Arts, Music, Musicals

  My favourite moment in Motown producer Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon (1985) is when a packed movie theatre showing Enter The Dragon is interrupted randomly by two break-dancers and a boom-box, who are then shouted down and told to leave. Right before the unforgettable Sho’nuff (played by Julius J. Carry III in an indomitable performance)… Read.

• All That Jazz (1979)

  September 26, 2019

  1970s, Drama, Music, Musicals, New York

  I’d been keen to see Bob Fosse’s semi-autobiographical All That Jazz (1979) for awhile and I finally sat down with it over one weekend. Fascinating to watch such a reliable and straight-laced performer like Roy Schneider stretch himself, playing a version of Fosse that is glib, controlling, physical, exhausted and ultimately, a rueful asshole. Some… Read.

• Popeye (1980)

  September 13, 2019

  1980s, Comedy, Kids Movies, Music, Musicals

  I have vague memories of seeing the live action movie of Popeye (1980) on Saturday afternoon TV when I was a kid. In recent memory, one of its Harry Nilsson penned songs sung by Shelly Duvall was used in PTA’s Punch-Drunk Love (“He needs me”). It was time to rewatch and more fully understand the… Read.