Wonka
When a young magician and chocolatier (Timothée Chalamet) arrives in a small village, he faces stiff resistance from a cartel of chocolatiers. Director Paul King takes on Roald Dahl’s classic…
Newsies
In 1899, New York’s newsboys launch a strike against the city’s publishers, led by a 17-year-old (Christian Bale) who dreams of going west. A musical that teaches its audience about…
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
During the London Blitz, three children are evacuated to a small village where they’re staying with the eccentric Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), a woman who turns out to be a…
The Little Mermaid
After saving a human prince (Jonah Hauer-King) from a shipwreck, mermaid princess Ariel (Halle Bailey) wants to be part of his world. An ambitious remake of the 1989 Disney animated…
West Side Story
On Manhattan’s West Side, two teenagers (Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler) who belong to opposite ethnic gangs fall in love. This take on the classic Broadway musical is closer to the…
Oliver: Picking a Pocket or Two
Mark Lester. Photo: Columbia In a list I made a few years ago, I considered naming this movie the worst Best Picture winner of the 1960s. Because of the quality…
The Little Mermaid
The 16-year-old mermaid princess Ariel longs to get out of the water and walk like a human; after making a deal with a sea witch, she gets her wish fulfilled.…
Gigi: A Belle Époque Girl
Leslie Caron. Photo: MGM There’s a moment in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) where Peter Sellers impersonates Maurice Chevalier singing ”Thank Heaven for Little Girls” with an extreme French…
The Lion King: Feeling the Love
Photo: Disney In the early 1990s, during the production of the songs for Disney’s upcoming animated adventure The Lion King, West End legend Tim Rice had been hired to write…
Mary Poppins Returns
Two decades after the events of the first film, a now grown up Michael (Ben Whishaw) and his three children risk losing their home; then, Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) returns. 54…