Movie Notes: Dreamgirls

The spouse wanted an uplifting flick, and Dreamgirls fit the bill. It’s a quick ride right out of the gates, as we begin in the middle of an amateur music competition, with hardly an introduction before the singing starts.

The spouse wanted an uplifting flick, and Dreamgirls fit the bill. It’s a quick ride right out of the gates, as we begin in the middle of an amateur music competition, with hardly an introduction before the singing starts.

Kinsey is a calculatingly unsexy movie about sex, which makes sense as Kinsey the scientist approached the subject from the unemotional, unjudgemental viewpoint of a researcher. It’s a biopic along the lines of Ray, The Aviator, or Tucker, with some important differences.