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Musicals

As soon as sound was introduced to the movies, the movie musical was born. The musical was one of the most popular movie entertainments from the 1930s through to the 50s, before falling out of favour at the end of the 60s for audiences now being weened on Vietnam, race riots, political assassinations, flower power and psychedelia. The musical still continued onwards, albeit in a different form, with various efforts such as "Cabaret", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Grease", "Hair", "All That Jazz" and "The Blues Brothers" appearing over the next decade. More recently, "Moulin Rouge" and particularly "Chicago" hark back to the glory days of the musical. Right: Liza Minnelli does "Cabaret"

Classic Collectables: Holiday Inn & Going My Way (1942)

7.4/10
Director: Mark Sandrich, Leo McCarey
Starring: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald, Rise Stevens

Holiday Inn: 1942. 101mins. This grand musical showcase for Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire about a romantic triangle, and the establishment of a country... Read more

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

7.5/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones

The film biography of country-western superstar Loretta Lynn. Sissy Spacek won an Academy Award for her performance as the lass from Butcher's Hollow.... Read more

Cold War (2018)

7.7/10
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kulesza, Jeanne Balibar, Cedric Kahn

A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Se... Read more

Cold War (Blu-Ray) (2018)

7.7/10
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kulesza, Jeanne Balibar, Cedric Kahn

A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Se... Read more

Cover Girl / Gilda (1944)

Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Glenn Ford, George Macready

"Cover Girl" (1944) - This delightful Kern-Gershwin musical has Kelly's brilliant dancing, Silvers' burlesque routines, Arden's wisecracks and Haywort... Read more

Crazy (2007)

7.1/10
Director: Rick Bieber
Starring: Waylon Payne, Ali Larter, Lane Garrison, Scott Michael Campbell, David Conrad, J...

The true story of one of Nashville's most innovative instrumentalists comes to the screen in this bio-pic based on the life of Hank Garland. A gifted... Read more

Cupcakes (2013)

6/10
Director: Eytan Fox
Starring: Anat Waxman, Yael Bar-Zohar, Ofer Shechter, Dana Ivgy, Efrat Dor, Keren Berger

A.k.a. "Bananot" ("Bananas"). When a group of best friends in Tel Aviv gather to watch Universong, they are less than impressed by the official Israel... Read more

Daddy Long Legs (1955)

6.7/10
Director: Jean Negulesco
Starring: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Fred Clark, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Larry Keatin...

Young French orphan, Leslie Caron, is subsidised by a wealthy playboy (Fred Astaire) with the stipulation that his identity be kept secret in this del... Read more

Daffodils (2019)

7.5/10
Director: David Stubbs
Starring: Rose McIver, George Mason

A bittersweet love story told through enchanting re-imaginings of popular and iconic New Zealand songs. Read more

Dames (1934)

7.2/10
Director: Ray Enright
Starring: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee

Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler only have eyes for each other in this tale of stage hopefuls battling a disapproving decency group. And all audience eyes... Read more