A pop star meets with her estranged best friend to try to reconnect with herself and their shared past in David Lowery’s beautifully designed but muddled Mother Mary.
Tag Archives: Musical
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
It is impossible to make an intentionally campy film. The whole point of camp is that it never realizes that it is camp. For example, “Valley of the Dolls” is genius camp because it is so wonderfully wrong at every imaginable turn, with the gifted cast trying and cluelessly failing to create alchemy with their material. If the actors started winking at the audience or smirking at their material, then it is not camp – it is just plain dumb.
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Good Manners (2017) [Women In Horror Month 2026]
When Clara takes a nanny job with a soon-to-be mother, her life spirals into a dark fairy tale.
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Merrily We Roll Along [2025]
A composer’s rise to success and the loss of everything else is followed backwards in time in Merrily We Go Along, directed by Maria Friedman in a proshot of the 2023 Tony Award-winning Sondheim musical (originally produced in 1981).
Wicked: For Good [2025]
Elphaba, “The Wicked Witch of the West”, is hunted by various forces, including The Wizard of Oz and her BFF Glinda the Good, in John M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good, the lesser second half of the Broadway adaptation.
Wicked: Part 1 [2024]
Before The Wizard of Oz, Elphaba, future Wicked Witch of the West, travels to Shiz University, entering a rivalry and friendship with Galinda in John M. Chu’s musical extravaganza Wicked (Part 1).
The Wiz (1978) [Most Influential Black Films]
A simple act of retrieving a dog running out into a storm becomes a radiant journey through self-discovery, courage, and community.