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Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
IMDB rating: 4.40
Plot: Primarily a two hour video, albeit a very good one, this sequel picks up 18 years later from the original and finds Elwood Blues being released from prison and trying to re-form his old band with new lead singer Mighty Mac replacing Jake. A road trip culminates with a [...]
Moonlight Serenade (2009)
IMDB rating: 6.30
Plot: Nate is a successful financial manager by day and jazz musician by night. One evening he hears a beautiful voice singing outside his apartment. The mysterious voice turns out to beDhloe, the coat check girl at the local jazz club. Nate strikes a deal with Chloe to perform with him [...]
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
IMDB rating: 7.20
Plot: Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised ‘Doin’ What Comes Naturally’. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in ‘Colonel Buffalo Bill’’s show, however, knows full well that’s not how ‘The Girl That I Marry’ must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that ‘My Defences are [...]
Pinocchio (1940)
IMDB rating: 7.60
Plot: Inventor Gepetto creates a wooden marionette called Pinocchio. His wish that Pinocchio be a real boy is unexpectedly granted by a fairy. The fairy assigns Jiminy Cricket to act as Pinocchio’s “conscience” and keep him out of trouble. Jiminy is not too successful in this endeavor and most of the film [...]
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
IMDB rating: 6.50
Plot: A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even [...]
Across the Universe (2007)
IMDB rating: 7.50
Plot: Musical based on ‘The Beatles’ (qv) songbook and set in the 60s England, America, and Vietnam. The love story of Lucy and Jude is intertwined with the anti-war movement and social protests of the 60s. Over 30 Beatles’ songs are woven into the plot together with visual allusions to [...]