Ok. I loved this. I don’t think it will be everyone’s cup of tea but from the first bolshie feminist dance number, I was hooked.
Continue readingThe Wave (La Ola)(2025)
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Wicked (2024)
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You know life is tough when you’re in Melbourne for the weekend and you run out of films to see at the Cinema Nova because you’ve already seen them all.
Continue readingGolden Eighties (1986)
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An insubstantial musical bubble about the vagaries of love set in an 80s stage set shopping mall.
Continue readingGive Me Pity! (2022)
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Day 27: A film I love but would never watch again
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Dancer in the Dark (2000)
The experience of watching this unique musical tragedy by Danish director Lars Von Trier is burned on my brain. I was a new mum and it was a rare moment when the baby was asleep and I had a few hours to watch a film.
Continue readingDay 20: My favourite film when I was a kid
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Bugsy Malone (1976)
As a teen, I loved Grease (1978), Star Wars (1977) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) but at age 11, I discovered cinema and my life was never the same.
Continue readingDay 15: My favourite musical film
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
I nearly chose The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), my obsession as a teenager and for the many midnight screenings I attended, or Grease (1978) or Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) or Once (2007) or The Lure (2015). They are all films I have loved and can, or have, watched multiple times. But there is something about this Howard Hawks classic, based on a play by Anita Loos, that gives me joy whenever I watch it.
Continue readingDaffodils (2019)
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I was primed for this New Zealand musical as a line of Maori singers serenaded the queue as we waited and they walked into the cinema. I was a tad disappointed when I realised they were there for For My Father’s Kingdom in Kino 1 and Daffodils was going to be a bit more pakeha. Continue reading
Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
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A Christmas-themed zombie musical set in a British high school? I couldn’t buy my ticket fast enough and John McPhail’s endearing comedy, packed with just the right amount of gore and catchy tunes, didn’t disappoint. Continue reading
Good Manners (As Boas Maneiras) (2017)
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This is a strange film. It changes mood, pace and genre several times, beginning as a straightforward drama then veering into romance then horror then fantasy then fairytale, with the occasional musical number thrown in. Continue reading
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