Burlesque Movie is a musical starring Christina Aguilera as Ali, a small town girl with a dream who sets out to Los Angeles. She finds herself in the once popular Burlesque Lounge where she is mentored by Tess (Cher), befriended by Georgia (Julianne Hough), falls for a struggling musician Jack the bartender (Cam Gigandet) and is envied by Nikki (Kirsten Bell). Starting out as a cocktail waitress wasn't what Ali was looking for, but soon enough she earns her shot on stage. Then a visitor shows up at the Burlesque Lounge with an opportunity that could make all Ali's dreams come true.

With a talent filled cast and plenty of inspiring music to offer Sparkle will most assuredly be one to see as well as listen to this year! Starring Jordin Sparks in the role of Sparkle, sounds like an ideal combination. Sparks was named the winner of season 6 on American Idol in 2007 and her career has never looked so promising since. In what may be her final acting role, Whitney Houston plays Sparkle's mom, a single mother with high hopes for her daughter's singing career. The sing together along with two sisters and absolutely sound like the Supremes did back in the 1960's.n original film titled Sparkle depicted a family of three sisters who formed a girl group from Harlem in the 50's but this remake centers them in Detroit in the 60's and is a far better tribute to the Supremes than Dreamgirls ever could be. Cast includes the late Whitney Houston (Waiting To Exhale), Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher), and Mike Epps (Jumping The Broom). Sparkle's sisters are played by Carmen Ejogo, and Tika Sumpter.

The film is based on a true story girl rock band 1970's, The Runaways, by the book "Neon Angel" lead singer Cherie Currie of the group - shows about her experience as a rock star, and also acts as a warning to teenagers and other people's difficulties in combating with drugs. «Space Oddity» David Bowie appears as a metaphor for the narrative: the slow timing; surreal but spectacular growth to glory, then the alienation and burnout - a long, long way from home.

If you are going to look for that "half", which makes "Nine" more than "Eight and a half", then you can find it in a consequence of the almost complete rejection of Marshall's confessional original. Instead og Fellini's excursion into your own mind here is melodrama of a person who does not want to change the freedom of their own fantasies on the responsibility and hassle of the real world. The unique crisis Marshall thus replaces the by the universal one. And with all the vulgarity of the resulting parade lacy stockings and fake romantic accents you have to admit: there is no need to be Fellini to resolve difficult relations with all the women of the life. It is much better to build mentally the cabaret of these women instead.

"Pure Country" is a 1992 musical film starring George Strait as a country music superstar named Dusty Chandler. After becoming disillusioned with the commercialization of his music and feeling like he has lost touch with his roots, Dusty decides to take a break from his career and go back to his hometown in Texas. There, he meets a woman named Harley and learns to rediscover his love for music and reconnect with his past.

Giuseppe Verdi, a genial Italian composer, the author of eternal "Grand March" from Aida, was born 10 October 1813. Since that time all the progressive society of musicians and opera lovers are celebrating Verdi's birthday each year. Quartet, a movie filmed in 2012 by Dustin Hoffman, follows the most recognized event of annual Verdi's birthday – a concert in Beecham House, a fictional retirement house for gifted musicians and concertmasters. Every year everything is going smoothly on this solemnity, but not this time. A wife of one of the quartet members, Jean joins the party to make a fuss around the celebration and summons the old spirits of rivalry between her husband Reg and rest of the quartet contributors Cissy, Wilf and Cedric. The ensembly cast of Quartet time and again consists of well matured actors and actress: Billy Connolly (The Hobbit, The X Files: I Want to Believe, The Last Samurai) is playing Wilf while Maggie Smith (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , Harry Potter franchise, Becoming Jane) is playing Jean, a Reg's wife. Reginald is portrayed by Tom Courtenay (The Golden Compass, Last Orders, Let Him Have It) while Michael Gambon (Brideshead Revisited, The King's Speech, The Book of Eli) is playing Cedric. The next Quartet member Cissy is portrayed by Pauline Collins, which may be familiar to you by her roles in Albert Nobbs as Margaret 'Madge' Baker and in Paradise Road as Daisy 'Margaret' Drummond.