Advantages: Some decent performances. Disadvantages: A series of Abba songs being murdered by unqualified performers (Brosnan, I'm talking about you...)
Sophie lives with her bohemian mother Donna on a remote Greek island where they run a hotel together. She is about to get married to her fiancé Sky, but there's one thing missing in her life; a father. She reads her mother's diary from the summer before she was born and discovers there are three possible dads - Harry, Sam and Bill. Unbeknownst to her mother she invites all three to the wedding, hoping she will know which is her father when she meets ... ...wedding and Donna is in for the surprise of her life.
This is only director Phyllida Lloyd's second stab at directing for the screen, having spent most of her career helming stage operas. Sadly her inexperience shows with a musical that never really expands beyond its stage origins. You don't get the impression of a world existing beyond the bounds of the screen. Although some of the exteriors were clearly shot around the Greek islands, Lloyd doesn't ...
Advantages: Wonderful performance of the Korngold Violin Concerto Disadvantages: Content repetition, speech over music, disappointing extras, etc
...The Artist - Hilary Hahn - violinist:
Hilary Hahn is an acclaimed American violinist who was born in 1979, she started studying the instrument at the age of 4 and after studying at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music she started her phenomenal career which has taken her around the world working with a raft of world class orchestras and performing in all the top concert halls. She has won a Grammy for her recordings of the violin concerti of Brahms ... ...Hilary Hahn has pursued an original approach to her highly informative website at www.hilaryhahn.com where she maintains a travel blog giving a fascinating insight into her touring musical life around the world and a further indication of her interest in stretching the limits of her career is her collaboration with various non-classical musicians from the world of rock and country. Anyone who enjoyed M. Night Shyamalan's terribly scary movie "The ...
...film version of it.
Little Shop Of Horrors was directed by Frank Oz, and features the arrival of a strange and interesting new plant in the failing Skid Row flower shop owned and run by Mushnik. His two employees are the geeky and friendless Seymour and the blonde bimbo Audrey. Other characters emerge as the film progresses, but the main protagonist to these two is the plant, named Audrey II by Seymour.
The plant's arrival, just when it seemed ... ...the shop. Initially a tiny little thing, Seymour nurtures it until one day he finds that in order for the plant to grow, there is one thing it needs to be feed more than anything else: blood!
What makes this film work is the timing of the music. It is a musical comedy, and as such the musicality must be an attractive prospect. The plot itself is brilliant, and does a lot of the storytelling, but the music fills in the time gaps with ease. The upbeat ...
Advantages: wonderfull sets, great director Disadvantages: for younger viewers it is a bit long
...behind it was a masterstroke, for instance the can can song when they first go to the moulin rouge ,with smells like teen spirit children of the revoulotion and many others in it made for a great movie, the dancing was wonderufll done, with it moving brillantly with the music ...
Advantages: Excellent sound, great concert Disadvantages: None
...Bon Jovi - Live at Madison Square Garden sees the band returning home after performing all around the world on what was to be the biggest tour in the world in 2008. It was filmed in July 2008, on the last date of the tour, which was just a couple of weeks after I had seen them in concert here in the UK. Directed by Jon Bon Jovi's brother, Anthony Bongiovi and Brian Lockwood, the DVD was shot in high definition and surround sound. The set list includes ... ...serves as a great account of the bands 25 year career which still sees them hitting their peak when performing live. Bon Jovi Live At Madison Square Garden is currently available from Amazon priced at £9.98 new, which is a saving of £5.01 on the RRP of £14.99. ...
