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Wicked: For Good (2025) Review

A VISUAL MUSICAL FINALE THAT SOARS – EVEN IF IT DOESN’T DEFY GRAVITY   Are people born wicked, or is wickedness thrust upon them? This enduring question lies at the heart of Wicked, the 2024 fantasy musical that reimagined the intertwined destinies of Elphaba and Galinda. Directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle

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Wicked (2024) Review

A MAGICIAL AND MUSICAL TRIUMPH   While the cinematic world of filmmaking has been quite a vast and celebrated tapestry of storytelling throughout the various decades, the dazzling and palpable theatrical stage of Broadway and its lyrical music has found its way to enchant viewers within their productions. The allure and fascination of Broadway shows has been infamous, with immediate

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In the Heights (2021) Review

A JUBILANT AND ENERGETIC MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR   Years before Lin-Manuel Miranda became a household name after the universal acclaim and success from his Broadway show Hamilton, the creative behind worked on another theatrical stage show titled In the Heights. The roots of the shows first began back during Miranda’s sophomore year in college in 1999; focusing on

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Crazy Rich Asians (2018) Review

WHAT A ROMANTIC COMEDY SHOULD BE   With Hollywood studios investing money in big-budgeted tentpole features or in smaller scale artistic films (ones that are worthy of Oscar / award nominations), the subgenre of romantic comedies is left somewhere in the middle of those two extreme juggernaut film genres. Naturally, romantic comedies movies, which are both a subgenre to both

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