Movies have employed music for many decades, and there are a few films that have used songs to great effect. This is a short list of the best movie scenes featuring singing:
Cabaret - “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”
An upstanding-looking young boy sings a beautiful song that very quickly turns into something rather ugly. The fact that hate groups have adopted this song adds to its intended meaning and purpose. Version with English subtitles here.
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Private Practice
Spin-offs rarely do well, but I hope this show will be an exception. One of the most well-written characters from Grey’s Anatomy has moved from Seattle to a small clinic that houses a sex-addict, a psycho psychiatrist, an ‘alternative medicine’ practitioner, and a loving-yet-divorced couple. Think of all the seasons you can go just with these characters! B
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13. The Matrix (The Matrix, The Matrix: Reloaded, The Matrix: Revolutions)
The Matrix was the feel-good lunch table discussion topic in my High School some eight years ago, and its quite clear why: not only was there an excellent story (though we had seen it before in Dark City), there were guns and chicks in leather and one of the most memorable shoot-out scenes in movie history. Then Reloaded and Revolutions came, and thus the trilogy was a-ruint.
Biggest “wtf?” moments: giant mechas shooting hordes of metal sperm-monsters in Revolutions, Lawrence Fishbourne directing a huge sweaty rave-ish orgy.
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Tell Me You Love Me (Showtime): 
Rampant penises, bared breasts, and senior citizens having oral sex! No, I’m not talking about my bachelor party — Showtime’s new drama is unafraid to bare all, and thus the show consists almost entirely of full-frontal and half-frontal nudity. Now, I’m all for sex and nudity in my television, but unfortunately, controversy doesn’t help the stilted writing and lackluster production of Showtime’s new offering. D
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A list of biographical films based on the stories of music artists or bands.
Amadeus (1984) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Clocking in at over 2 1/2 hours (almost 3 hours for the director’s cut) and kicking ass at the Oscars for a total of 8 Academy awards, Amadeus is a monster of musical biopics.
Tom Hulce
Mr. Mozart
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Film franchises are often created with trilogy in mind. Other times, sequels ride on the coattails of the original installment’s box office success.
This is a look at the ten best movie trilogies of all time.
10. Back to the Future 1-3
Great Scott! I was a mere eight years old when this trilogy wrapped in 1990, but I remembered these films vividly until I saw them again in 2001.
What’s not to love about Back to the Future? How many of us saw these films and desperately wanted a hoverboard, or those kick-ass self-tying shoes from the second installment? *raises hand*
What with the DeLorean entering production once more, there’s even more reason for us to appreciate this trilogy of well-crafted films.
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A look at seven great television series ended before their prime.
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was a wickedly intelligent show that managed to brilliantly intertwine the lives of nine family members into perpetual dysfunction.
I, for one, miss hearing that intro: “This is the story of a wealthy family who lost everything…”
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With Lost coming back in February for its fourth season, we need a refresher to remind us what the show was all about in the first place. Therefore, here’s a biased list of the five hottest females from the show’s history.
Ana Lucia was only around for a season, long enough to charm the panties off of Sawyer and then be brutally murdered.
Why she’s hot: She can kick your ass.
Why she’s not: She can kick your ass.
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A look at the men who have played Batman in film and television.
Adam West
Batman (TV Series, 1966-1968)
Batman: The Movie (1966)
Adam West spent two years playing Batman on the original TV series as well as the deliciously campy movie treatment, but never fully escaped the typecasting of being Bruce Wayne.
The original series was genius in its own way - Julie Newmar was quite possibly the hottest Catwoman ever to grace the screen, and Liberace surreally starred in an episode as both a violent thug and his own twin brother.
Other roles defying credibility as Batman: Adam West had never escaped the typecasting of Batman; however, his voice-over work of Mayor Adam West in the animated series Family Guy does not lend itself well to the Dark Knight’s persona (though in all fairness, the original movie and television serial never accomplished that in the first place).
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Reviewed: Resident Evil: Extinction, Into the Wild, Good Luck Chuck, The Brave One
Click here for part I of this series
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