musical — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

It's Crazy That Michel Gondry and Pharrell Williams' Period Musical Golden Was Cancelled and Will Never Be Released, Yet No One Seems to Have Noticed

The Oscar-winning genius behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind made a coming of age period musical with hit-maker Pharrell Williams that, unfortunately, will never be available for public consumption because its creators all agree that it missed the mark.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 16, 2025Pharrell Williams, Michel Gondry, cancelled film, musical

2017's Anna and the Apocalypse is the Single Greatest Scottish Zombie Teen Romance Zombie Musical Comedy EVER!

This Christmas, enjoy the ho ho horror zombie musical comedy Yuletide treat Anna and the Apocalypse!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 25, 2024Scotland, musical, zombie, Film, Rom Com, Musical, Shaun of the Dead

Best of 2023: Dear Evan Hansen Is Yet Another Illustration That What Works Onstage Can Die An Agonizing Death on Film

I take a mortified look at the notorious flop musical adaptation Dear Evan Hansen, where an old man plays the world’s least likable teenager in the least plausible movie ever made.

I was not a fan.

My World Of FlopsNathan RabinJanuary 2, 2024Julianne Moore, Ben Platt, musical, Broadway adaptation

Hannah Montana: The Movie Is Very Silly and Also Not Terribly Realistic

We’re britches and boots and if that ain’t good enough for you, maybe you should just pack up and git!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 17, 2023Billy Ray Cyrus, Disney, musical

The 1949 Doris Day Show Business Musical It's a Great Feeling is a Delight

Before she was America’s sweetheart Doris Day was an ambitious show-business striver on the rise in the delightful 1949 movie world musical comedy It’s a Great Feeling!

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinApril 3, 2023Doris Day, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, musical, comedy, show-business, movies

Bob Fosse's Extraordinary Directorial Career Began and Ended Big with Sweet Charity and Star 80

Choreographer turned auteur Bob Fosse only made a handful of movies, but they all mattered, including his spectacular debut Sweet Charity and punishingly intense final film, Star 80.

Singing in the Rain's Enduring Greatness Lies in its Proud Vulgarity

Singing in the Rain is unique among films widely considered the greatest of all time in being thoroughly, unapologetically vulgar and full of raucous fun.

The Coen Brothers' 2016 Comedy Hail, Caesar! Is Pure Entertainment

You know what movie is tons of fun? Hail, Caesar!

The Travolta/Cage Project #84 Hairspray (2007)

You know what movie is a goddamn delight? 2007’s Hairspray. What a picture!

The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

In honor of Charles Grodin month, we take a fond look back at his torrid onscreen romance with Miss Piggy in the delightful 1981 musical heist film The Great Muppet Caper.