There is a paradox at the heart of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s empire that Joel Schumacher’s 2004 Phantom of the Opera makes impossible to ignore
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Phantom of the Opera (2004)
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The Top 10 Movies of 2025
The year 2025 was not a particular shining beacon for cinema in my eyes
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Cats (2019)
There’s a case to be made that the true line of demarcation between the before-times and the after-times is not March 2020, when the world shut down as COVID spread and quarantine began, but a few months earlier, when Cats arrived in theaters.
Dan and Brian continue Musical Decades Month with a look at two musicals written by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Dan and Brian continue Musical Decades Month and also honor Black History Month by looking at two films depicting the Black experience with Black casts
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Not Just a Goof (2024)
You’re not going to get an unbiased review from me on this one.
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The B.A.D.S. by The Goods, 2025
Has it really been a whole year?
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Train Dreams (2025)
Train Dreams tells the story of a man’s eighty years of life in a hundred minutes.
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The Secret Agent (2025)
I find that the opening scene of The Secret Agent is a pretty good lens into the overall experience of watching the film.
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Nouvelle Vague (2025)
Among the great and influential directors of the past thirty years, Richard Linklater is the one with the least neurosis.