The remake of “Sparkle” is not a film to see if; 1) you want to remember Whitney Houston at her best 2) you have seen either the Broadway production of “Dreamgirls” or 3) you have seen the movie version of “Dreamgirls”. Don’t get me wrong as Whitney Houston isn’t bad, or embarrassing, but she sings only one song...
HBO is now showing a very powerful and moving documentary about Vito Russo who wrote “The Celluloid Closet”, a bestseller about gays in the movies. The film starts off on the light side showing a young boy growing up naturally, loved by his parents and brother, knowing he was gay in a time it wasn’t safe or easy being gay....
Woody Allen got me, and millions of others, back into his fold with “Midnight In Paris” but he has kicked me to the curb again with “To Rome With Love”. This type of travelogue was made, and much better, by 20th Century Fox and M-G-M in the 1950s and 1960s and they added hit songs with a prime example...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyD_T7zPMVQ&;hd=1 When you walk into the movie theatre to see “Men in Black 3” you are not going to see a ‘deep’ film but to be entertained and “MIB3” is entertaining--maybe mindless, but entertaining. It has been 15 years since the first “Men In Black” and though it helps to have...
Dear Readers: Next theater season we will be launching a new award called the Broadway Showbiz YNOT award and we will be asking for you to pick the winners. This award will salute: Film, Off Broadway, Music, Cabaret and Broadway. Each category will be voted on individually and not against each other. I am putting together a nominating...
