Tag Archives: Musical

The first trailer for Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical has been released, showcasing the movie’s star-studded cast and award-winning musical numbers. We get our first glimpse of Emma Thompson kitted out in prosethetics as tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull, while No Time to Die‘s Lashana Lynch is kindly teacher Miss Honey. …

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is that curious kind of remake: impressively put together, but so reverentially similar to the original it doesn’t quite warrant the effort.  Presented as a reimagining of the stage show, but really in thrall to the 1961 film by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, West …

Wonka has added Olivia Colman, Rowan Atkinson, and Sally Hawkins to its cast. Production has kicked off on the prequel film, which will explore the life of the famous chocolatier before his massive success – and is also a musical, with original songs penned by The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon. …

A new month means new additions to Amazon Prime Video, and this August there are tons of excellent new movies and TV shows to get streaming. Brand new originals in the US this month include Val, A24’s documentary about Val Kilmer, as well as the next star-studded season of Modern …

We realise we’ve done something wrong when the wooden door won’t open from the outside. To the glitch pop already pumping in our headphones, we add a flurry of hasty right-clicks, to no avail. The set we’ve all queued so long to see is just about to start, but this …

With one Lin-Manuel Miranda project on the horizon – In The Heights arrives on HBO Max and in cinemas imminently – another has already shown its face. Netflix has released the first trailer for Tick, Tick… Boom!, the Hamilton music maker’s feature-length directorial debut. Tick, Tick… Boom! centers on the …

Working on big franchise movies can be tough, and nobody knows this more than Joss Whedon. With his admittance that working on the incredibly successful Avengers: Age of Ultron “a little bit broke me” (opens in new tab), the geek extraordinaire has been enjoying a well deserved break, and now …