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With the recent film release of the hugely successful Broadway musical "Wicked"  (a musical I did NOT like), I thought I'd share a list of my 10 Favorite Movie Musicals. My list features musicals from the 1970s onward because, in reality, most great movie musicals were released between the late 1930s and the 1950s (with a few legendary ones in the 1960s). Incredible films like "Singin' In the Rain,"   "A Hard Day's Night,"   "Mary Poppins,"   "My Fair Lady,"   "Funny Face,"

My next monthly Nick's Pix is Steven Spielberg 's "1941," the epic comedy with an all-star line up. This one-night-only screening is at 7pm, Wednesday, December 4th at Classic Cinemas Lake Theater in Oak Park with trivia, prizes, and fun. Get your tickets here! It's one of the craziest movies ever AND a personal favorite. "1941" is breathlessly entertaining, unapologetically loud, and completely go-for-broke in its manic depiction of the widespread hysteria that blankete