Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical-romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen; starring Kelly; Donald O'Connor; and Debbie Reynolds; It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s; with the three stars portraying performers caught up in [...]
Whiplash is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle; It depicts the relationship between an ambitious jazz drumming student (Miles Teller) and an abusive instructor at the fictional Shaffer Conservatory (J. K. Simmons). Paul Reiser and Melissa Benoist co-star. Whiplash premiered in competition [...]
A Star Is Born is a 2018 American romantic musical drama film produced and directed by Bradley Cooper;and co-written by Cooper; Eric Roth and Will Fetters; It stars Cooper; Lady Gaga; Dave Chappelle; Andrew Dice Clay; and Sam Elliott; and follows a hard-drinking musician (Cooper) [...]
Mary Poppins Returns is a 2018 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Rob Marshall; with a screenplay written by David Magee and a story by Magee; Marshall; and John DeLuca; Based on the book series Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers, the film is a [...]
Yesterday is a 2019 British musical comedy film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Richard Curtis; based on a story by Jack Barth and Curtis. The film, named after the song of the same name written by Paul McCartney, stars Himesh Patel as struggling musician [...]
A famous pianist struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic. Coda review: They don't make movies about classical musicians much nowadays and [...]
In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce [...]
Rocketman decides to focus on Elton John's character evolution more than anything else, chronicling his life from when he was a wee-little boy to his glory days as the colorfully [...]
