It turns out that the most believable way to build a war barricade in the movies is to literally build a war barricade in the movie. Les Misérables takes place in Paris in the 19 th century and shows ...

Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap I’m still surprised by how deeply Les Miserables touched me. I’m not a huge fan of musical theater and while I’d been mildly ...

Behold the weepie that has its own actors snotting into their sleeves. I’m casting no stones here: The quality-assurance boast of that monster-hit stage musical Les Misérables (itself based on Victor ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

The epic musical opens on Christmas Day Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman star Except for a couple of spoken words, the entire movie is sung NEW YORK -- At one of the first press screenings of the hotly ...

For all its expected highs, this adaptation of a justly beloved musical has been managed with more gusto than grace. The Universal release will nonetheless be a major worldwide draw through the ...

“We were very reluctant,” said one of the principals of 2012 film adaption of “Les Misérables,” “to have an all sung-through movie.” Such a statement could be guessed to originate from, say, a studio ...

Victor's Hugo's classic novel Les Miserables was turned into a smash-hit musical that was seen by 60 million people worldwide and performed more than 10,000 times on the West End alone. Now the ...

The people who put “Les Misérables” on screen dreamed a mighty dream, they really did. They dreamed of filming one of the most popular of modern theatrical musicals — 60 million tickets sold in 42 ...

The TV adaptation of Victor Hugo's 19th-century literary classic, Les Miserables, is coming to the BBC at the end of December. In contrast to the West End production and the hit 2012 film of the same ...

It was a great year for music on the silver screen in some ways — mainstream flicks featuring hot new artists; and weaker in others — favorite singers being massacred in cover-land. Here are our picks ...