CHRISTMAS REVIEW OF THE DAY: White Christmas (1954)
Our next Christmas review is White Christmas, starring one of the coolest men who had ever lived, Bing Crosby. Crosby plays Bob Wallace, a World War II vet who is buddies with Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) who is also a vet and was army buddies with Wallace. After the war, Wallace and Davis become big names in show business. When looking for talent they come across two beautiful performers, who are sisters, Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy (Vera-Ellen). Wallace seems to hit it off pretty good with Betty and Davis seems to hit it off pretty good wit…
RANDOM REVIEW OF THE DAY: The Prince of Egypt (1998)
How weird is it to adapt the story of Moses from the Bible into an Disney-esque animated musical film? Well Dreamworks did it, but what was the outcome? The outcome...one of the best animated films ever made! This is The Prince of Egypt, the story, which probably the two of you don't know because it is straight from the Bible. When the Pharaoh (voiced by Patrick Stewart) orders an execution of all newborns of the Jewish slaves, a mother saves her own baby boy by putting him in a basket down the Nile River, and praying to God that the baby …
Les Miserables Review
So after weeks of waiting AFTER its intial release, I finally got to see one of the most anticipated and biggest films of the year, Les Miserables. Based on the novel by Victor Hugo and most famously based on the staged Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Alan Boubil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, the story follows an ex-convict named Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) who makes a better life for himself by becoming a mayor of French town after being released out of prison but he misses his parole and his hunted for years by an officer named Jav…
REQUESTED REVIEW OF THE DAY: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
*Yeah, I know I'm a little late on this. It seems like for my first Requested Review of the Day, I will be reviewing a Hollywood classic, The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. Based on the children's novel by L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz is about a girl from a farm on Kansas named Dorothy (Judy Garland) who after a tornado storm is whisked away with her dog Toto to a magical land. Once she gets there, her house smashes the Wicked Witch of the East to death as she is praised as a hero by the Munchkins who reside…
