Musicals & Music Films > M Musicals & Music Films > Curry, Tim

the sun will comeout tomorrow

Advantages: great songs great acting great films
Disadvantages: none

...I even named my daughter Annie (I know that's quite sad), I first saw this film when I was about 4 or 5 and I loved it, I still love it. The musical was based on Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip. Annie first opened on Broadway in April, 1977, running for almost 2,500 performances - making it one the longest running musicals of the 1970s. The following year it opened at the Victoria Palace in London, where it enjoyed another successful ...
...Director- John Huston Plot Annie is set Manhattan in the middle of the Great Depression. Annie was found wrapped in newspaper on the doorstep of an orphanage when she was a baby. Spends the next 11 years living under the rules of the alcoholic, virgin, narcissist Miss Hannigan, hoping that her real mother will one day come and collect her. Working day and nigh cleaning, cooking and looking after the home to escape miss Hannigan's beatings Annie ...

tinac37 11.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Annie / Oliver (Box Set) (DVD)

"Consider This.... I'll Love Ya, Tomorrah"

Advantages: 2 great films in a box, at less than the price of one DVD
Disadvantages: None, unless musicals ain't your thing.

Over Christmas my daughter really enjoyed watching a couple of musicals on T.V. I also loved musicals as a child, and this prompted a visit to my mothers to raid the old forgotten VHS box. Unfortunately twenty odd years of being played to death and then neglected hadn't been kind, and our home recorded videos were unwatchable. Spurred on by the notion of a trip down memory lane, and a new convert to enjoy these much loved films with, I headed off ...
...of Annie and Oliver! Annie Based on the Broadway musical of the same name, this DVD is a special anniversary edition of the 1981 film starring Aileen quinn, Albert Finney and Carol Burnett. The movie opens in a New York orphanage during the depression, with 10 year old Annie wistfully hoping that her parents, who abandoned her as a child, will some day come to collect her with the other half of the locket that was left as their only reminder. ...

Rhiana 27.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Oliver!/Annie (Deluxe Edition) (Box Set) (DVD)

"She's so swishy in her satin and tat"

Advantages: Fascinating insight into Bowie's work
Disadvantages: Probably not for newcomers to Bowie

...has consistently impressed me is David Bowie. Called a 'chameleon' for many because of the various characters that he has portrayed, his range of music is impressive. My favourite Bowie era is the early seventies, and thankfully, this is exactly the period that this double DVD and book set cover. Called a 'critical review', a number of people connected to Bowie and the music world are interviewed during the course of the DVDs. Two of those interviewed ...
...any kind of interview with David Bowie himself, except for the odd flash of an early seventies interview that he gave. I was initially quite disappointed to not have his input; however, in hindsight, this is supposed to be a 'critical review', so it makes sense not to have an interview with Bowie himself. And some of the interviews are really quite critical - Pin-Ups, a cover version album that Bowie released, is more or less panned by all of those ...

sunmeilan 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of David Bowie - Inside David Bowie 1969 To 1974 (Limited Edition) (+Book) (DVD)

Fantastic film anyone would have to enjoy it!!

Advantages: Everything, sheer masterpiece!
Disadvantages: Non apart from the fact it made me cry!

In my opinion this film is fantastic. It is a classic tearjerker with lots of fun and exciting elements to it. I feel this film can appeal to absolutley anyone as the story is fantastic and the actors are vibrant and gorgeous (for both the men and the women!). All in all from my point of view this film is worth purchasing it will definatley take your breath away! The songs featured in the film in my opinion are absolutley fabulous, ranging from ...

Racercaz 25.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moulin Rouge (Special Edition) (DVD)

Friendship or Fame?

Advantages: great storyline, excellent songs and vocals
Disadvantages: none really

...matured Curtis renames them the Dreamgirls and they are an instant success. The group is in for a change though when they have to try and branch out into the pop charts and make a name for themselves in a mainly white market. Curtis upsets Effie by suggesting that Deena takes the lead which has some drastic consequences for the Dreamgirls. Will the Dreamgirls get their dream of a number one song and what will become of the group with all the changes ...
...to seeing this film as it is one which I have wanted to see for some time as the trailers on the TV made it look interesting and full of good songs. I can honestly say that t was so much better than had expected it to be. The storyline was great and I did hear that it was based loosely on the lived of the Supremes and also a Broadway show. I think that the storyline and the race issues were handled extremely well and showed just how prejudice people ...

sewbizzie 23.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dreamgirls (DVD)