Category: Musical
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Diane Warren: Relentless: Chasing the Oscar At All Costs
Diane Warren: Relentless (2024) Bess Kargman After a weekend of new releases, I got back on the Oscars Death Race grind, and I’m actually pretty close to the end already. Before tonight, I only had five feature films left, and now that number is just four! I wasn’t exactly looking forward to Diane Warren: Relentless, but of the three films that I could watch from home, it was the shortest, so…
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The Testament of Ann Lee: Seyfried Shakes Up the End-of-Year Standings
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Mona Fastvold Morgan and I (mostly I) made the questionable decision earlier this week to go see The Testament of Ann Lee in the opening stages of Texas’ yearly “winter storm to end all winter storms” today, but we dodged all the bad stuff. It was only moderately raining as we both entered and left the theater today for a movie that…
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Song Sung Blue: Good Times, Hard Times, and Songs That Stick
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Song Sung Blue (2025) Craig Brewer Just kidding about the “last theater visit of 2025” thing from before! With an abundance of time in Kansas City before the Roos basketball game this evening, half of our group ventured to Screenland in Kansas City (by the way, one of the coolest theaters I’ve ever been to, and with a great chicken bacon grilled cheese to boot!) to…
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Wicked: For Good: Changes and Being Changed
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Wicked: For Good (2025) Jon M. Chu After the longest year of my musical theater-loving life, it was finally time to settle in for Wicked: For Good and have my mind blown (hopefully). Knowing the musical very well already, I knew to expect a darker narrative, less humor, and fewer iconic songs, and while all of those things were present, the finale to one of the most anticipated…
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Blue Moon: Appreciating Beauty Wherever You Find It
Blue Moon (2025) Richard Linklater I knew that I was going to love Blue Moon when I first put it on my watchlist at the beginning of the year. A Richard Linklater film about Rodgers, Hart, and Hammerstein with Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley? It was settled then and there, and predictably, I was bewitched by this movie. I’m not the most versed in Linklater—though I’ve loved Hit Man, School of Rock, and Dazed and…
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere: Stuck in the Biopic Blues
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025) Scott Cooper Much like the superhero fatigue that has plagued society for the last few years (funny, though, considering that’s when I decided to start watching them), it feels like the music biopic’s time in the sun has come and gone, yet a new music biopic comes out every six months. Even with some fatigue in the genre, I wanted…
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Kiss of the Spider Woman: Tangled in Its Own Web, But It Works!
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Bill Condon After adding Kiss of the Spider Woman to my watchlist as Morgan and I were picking our Sundance movies earlier this year, I was kind of shocked to see that my local Regal theater was showing it this weekend! I also had no idea until yesterday that Kiss of the Spider Woman was a book, then a play, then a movie, then…
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KPop Demon Hunters: So That’s How It’s Done, Done, Done!
KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang Pardon my French, but what the frick? I saw KPop Demon Hunters pop up in the popular movies on Letterboxd like a week ago and thought nothing of it, but then the positive and obsessed reviews started rolling in. As a film loyalist, I knew had to check it out, but I didn’t know I’d contribute to the pile of positive and obsessed…
