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Subgenre Sampler

 
SingSing (2016) Recommended
Dir. Garth Jennings, Christophe Lourdelet
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane
Zany animated musical about a struggling impresario who enters a singing competition in a last ditch attempt to save his beloved decaying theatre…
Sing StreetSing Street (2016) Recommended
Dir. John Carney
Feat. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Aidan Gillen
A more commerical but no–less–engaging Irish music film from the dir. of ONCE, about a boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s who…
TrollsTrolls (2016)
Dir. Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn
Feat. Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel
Exuberant Dreamworks animation based on the toy franchise, where blissfully happy Trolls must defend themselves against the Bergens, who want to eat…
Chi-RaqChi-Raq (2015)
Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Teyonah Parris
Brilliant Spike Lee musical transposing the classical Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes into the setting of a Chicago neighbourhood beset by gang…
London RoadLondon Road (2015)
Dir. Rufus Norris
Feat. Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy, Anita Dobson
An audacious but audience–dividing musical devised around the unlikely premise of Ipswich community members who are drawn together to come to…
Lure, TheLure, The (2015) Recommended
Dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska
Feat. Marta Mazurek
Utterly beguiling musical horror set in Poland in the 1980's, following the fate of a pair of mermaid sisters as they struggle to integrate into a…
Pitch Perfect 2Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
Dir. Elizabeth Banks
Feat. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld
Agreeable sequel takes place after a humiliating performance at Lincoln Center forces the Barden Bellas to enter an international competition in…
AnnieAnnie (2014)
Dir. Will Gluck
Feat. Quvenzhané Wallis, Cameron Diaz, Jamie Foxx
Modernized, hip–hop version of the Broadway classic tells the tale of a foster kid, who sees her life change when a business tycoon and mayoral…
God Help the GirlGod Help the Girl (2014) Recommended
Dir. Stuart Murdoch
Feat. Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray
Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch writes and directs this 60s–inspired musical set in Glasgow about an emotionally troubled young woman whose…
Into the WoodsInto the Woods (2014) Recommended
Dir. Rob Marshall
Feat. Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine
Stephen Sondheim's exuberant musical gets the gleaming big screen treatment from dir. Rob Marshall (CHICAGO, NINE), with Meryl Streep as the witch…

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