Tick, tick…Boom! (2021) Film Review B
Although we know the eventual outcome, there is no great tragedy awaiting us at the end of the movie. In fact, it is a celebration of life.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 23, 2021 | Archival Posts, B, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Music Biography, Music Scene, Netflix, Queer Film/TV |
Although we know the eventual outcome, there is no great tragedy awaiting us at the end of the movie. In fact, it is a celebration of life.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 8, 2022 | Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, B-, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Music Scene, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming |
However, no one seems to have stopped and thought about the age difference between these two maestros. By my calculations, Lenny would have been teaching Lydia when she was five years old!
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Based on the 1966 Broadway musical “Cabaret” by Kander and Ebb which was adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Stories” (1945).
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Lauren Bacall is Kirk Douglas’ young man with a horn’s society wife who is also a closeted lesbian. Bacall is very good in a risque role.
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Brilliantly filmed in high Germanic style by a wondrously talented bunch of ex-pat Viennese uber talents: Curtiz, Anton Grot and Max Steiner.
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