Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston) is an Oscar-nominated music superstar who is being stalked and sent death threats. Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) is a former Secret Service Special Agent who served as part of the presidential protection detail during the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Frank is haunted by the fact that he was […]
All That Jazz
Choreographer-turned-director Bob Fosse turns the camera on himself in this nervy, sometimes unnerving 1979 feature, a nakedly autobiographical piece that veers from gritty drama to razzle-dazzle musical, allegory to satire. It’s an indication of his bravura, and possibly his self-absorption, that Fosse (who also cowrote the script) literally opens alter ego Joe Gideon’s heart in […]
Dreamgirls
Backstage at an amateur talent show at the Detroit Theater in 1962, Cadillac salesman Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Jamie Foxx) meets a girl group known as “The Dreamettes” with lead singer Effie White (Jennifer Hudson), and back-up singers Deena Jones (Beyoncé Knowles), and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose). Curtis presents himself as the Dreamettes’ new manager […]
Walk The Line
In 1968, an audience of inmates at Folsom State Prison cheer for Johnny Cash’s (Joaquin Phoenix) band as he waits backstage near a table saw, reminding him of his early life. In 1944, Johnny (Ridge Canipe), then known as J.R., grows up the son of a share cropper on a cotton farm in Dyess, Arkansas, […]
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