Young@Heart - A Movie Every Grandparent Should See!

Categories: Musical, Popcorn

Rating: Popcorn Young@Heart is the musical documentary about the Northampton, Massachusetts' ensemble of twenty-four senior citizens who perform songs ranging from Allen Toussaint's "Yes We Can Can" to Coldplay's emotionally powerful "Fix You". Musical director Bob Cilman prepares the group for their one-night performance in Northampton, which is only two months away. The ensemble is having a hard time with the lyrics to the seven new songs they must learn for their upcoming concert. With rehearsals scheduled three times a week, they ... Read More

Hamlet 2 - In High Schools This Summer

Categories: Comedy, Musical, Upcoming Movies

Prepare yourself to laugh this summer as Focus Features releases its upcoming musical comedy. From the writers of South Park and Team America comes the comedy about a high school drama teacher (Steve Coogan) as he tries to save the department by rallying his students to create a politically incorrect sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hamlet 2 stars Steve Coogan (Hot Fuzz, Thunder Tropic), Catherine Keener (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Into The Wild), Amy Poehler (Baby Mama, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who), David Arquette ... Read More

Southland Tales

Categories: Burnt Popcorn, Musical, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Rating: Burnt Popcorn After a nuclear bomb explodes in Texas in 2005, the United States goes down in chaos. The U.S. begins to attack every nation that it thinks is its enemy, which causes WWIII. Southland Tales is set in 2008 in L.A., where the neo-Marxist are revolting against the government, a Hollywood star stricken with amnesia helps out a porn star in creating a reality TV show, and a police office holds the information to a conspiracy. When I read the synopsis in Blockbuster's ... Read More

Across The Universe

Categories: Musical, Popcorn, Romance

Rating: Popcorn A romantic musical, mostly told through Beatles' songs, is about a young guy in Liverpool who travels to the United States during the Vietnam War to meet his father for the first time. He arrives in Greenwich Village and falls in love with an American girl. Together, they experience the swift changes in the U.S. of the 1960's.The leading actors, Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood, did a great job with their combination of acting, dancing and singing. In order to ... Read More

Once

Categories: Drama, Foreign, Kernel, Musical

Rating: Kernel Once is the story of "the Guy" (yes, none of the characters have names) who works part-time for his father's business. Other than his work, he spends most of his time busking the streets of Dublin, hoping to one day get his music recorded. "The Guy" still thinks of his girlfriend who left him and he just can't move on in life.One day, he meets "the Girl", a recent immigrant. She loves music and would like to have a piano, but ... Read More