Reviews of musical DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.
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Carmen Jones (Blu-ray Review) 13 Jan, 2014
Carmen Jones was something else: color, CinemaScope (at almost exactly the one-year anniversary of...More>>
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Jumbo (Blu-ray Review) 13 Jan, 2014
As it stands, this was Day’s last musical, and hearing her sing a couple of the perennials is...More>>
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Oliver! (Blu-ray Review) 16 Dec, 2013
Running 153 minutes without even a hint of any pacing lags, Oliver! looks terrific on Blu-ray. More>>
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Red Garters (DVD Review) 11 Nov, 2013
Whatever else you want to say about this Western-motifed drug trip before its time, there has never...More>>
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Going Hollywood (DVD Review) 26 Aug, 2013
This is a Raoul Walsh musical, of which there are more than you might think, but the result is no...More>>
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Love Me Tender (Blu-ray Review) 12 Aug, 2013
Elvis’ screen debut has a disproportionately lousy reputation yet has its share of fascinations...More>>
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Jupiter's Darling (DVD Review) 15 Jul, 2013
Adapted from the play 'Road to Rome' by Robert E. Sherwood, this has been described as the movie...More>>
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Ghastly Love of Johnny X, The (DVD Review) 19 May, 2013
'Ghastly Love' appears to have a bit of an identity crisis, as the different genres are presented...More>>
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Hello, Dolly! (Blu-ray Review) 29 Apr, 2013
The Blu-ray of 20th Century Fox’s one-time studio-buster is resplendent enough to rate a...More>>
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Les Misérables (Blu-ray Review) 29 Mar, 2013
Director Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the legendary and enormously popular musical relentlessly...More>>
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Guys and Dolls (Blu-ray Review) 14 Jan, 2013
As a presentation, the Blu-ray is beautiful, which is especially noteworthy in that there were...More>>
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Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut (Blu-ray Review) 18 Oct, 2012
This Blu-ray edition includes the color version of the original ending, a 10-minute sequence of...More>>
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Where Do We Go Now? (Blu-ray Review) 27 Sep, 2012
Director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki creatively and charmingly makes this unique idea of a film...More>>
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Bye Bye Birdie (Blu-ray Review) 3 Sep, 2012
Ann-Margaret’s seminal role cast her as a storybook teen in Central Ohio selected from thousands...More>>
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There’s No Business Like Show Business (Blu-ray Review) 13 Aug, 2012
Marilyn Monroe is kind of an appendage here to a showbiz family that manages to keep performing...More>>
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Singin’ in the Rain: 60th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition (Blu-ray Review) 30 Jul, 2012
Warner Home Entertainment has given this MGM release the full deluxe treatment, with sterling sound...More>>
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Cover Girl (Blu-ray Review) 23 Jul, 2012
The production numbers here are good, and a couple of them are even better than that, but the...More>>
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Sky’s the Limit, The (DVD Review) 16 Apr, 2012
Fred Astaire, the most dapper of all screen history’s dancers, is cast as a nationally famous...More>>
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Stars and Stripes Forever (Blu-ray Review) 9 Jan, 2012
What Blu-ray can do to showcase real-deal Technicolor goes a long way to carry this (high-side-of)...More>>
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Meet Me in St. Louis (Blu-ray Review) 12 Dec, 2011
This long-awaited Blu-ray version of Vincente Minnelli’s own career-maker is a kind of color...More>>
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