The Prom, out now in cinemas and on Netflix. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Corny, cheesy, schmaltzy, unsubtle, totally predictable… call it all the names you like but the bottom line is that The Prom works and is just the feelgood pick-me-up we need at this gloomy time. The movie, with a glitzy […]
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Mamma Mia! film sequel to debut on Netflix
Hit sequel Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! will be made available for the first time to UK and Ireland Netflix users from 26 June 2020. First released in cinemas in 2018, a decade after the first film hit the big screen, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! tells two stories: the present-day reopening of […]
Take Me To The World: Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
Take Me To The World: Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration – Live on Broadway.com’s YouTube channel. Never mind it’s over a month since Stephen Sondheim celebrated his 90th birthday, never mind the show started 70 minutes past its advertised time because of technical difficulties, this almighty love-in for a musical legend was well worth the wait. […]
‘As glittering, hilarious, touching & entertaining as its predecessor’: Review – Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Pierce Brosnan has said that Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the antidote the world needs right now and as the credits start to role and you’re sat there beaming and dancing along to yet another ABBA hit, it’s impossible to disagree. It’s almost ten years to the day that Mamma Mia! hit our screens, but […]
Mamma Mia! film sequel to dance into cinemas next July
Universal has confirmed work has begun on a sequel to the studio’s hit film version of Mamma Mia! in advance of a 20 July 2018 launch date. Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! will feature Abba songs not used in the 2008 film and the studio has brought in Ol Parker, the writer of The […]
Into the Woods – the movie – our verdict
Into the Woods opens in UK cinemas on 9 January 2015. As a longtime Sondheim fan and particular admirer of Into the Woods, the “be careful what you wish for” fantasy musical which the great man teased out of James Lapine’s clever book in 1986, it would be great to be wrong but where’s the […]
