Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

New York CityNew York, New York. We hear it's a helluva town. (Actually, we hear that from the same guy who gave us West Side Story). Here, it's a nice modern stand-in for Shakespeare's Verona, rig...

West Side Story is ground-breaking in a lot of ways, but when it comes to delivering the information, it tends to rely on the tried-and-true technique of moving to the character we need to see when...

Musical, Drama, TragedySinging and dancing are the order of the day in West Side Story, which plants it very firmly in the realm of a musical. That means the dance numbers and vocals don't have to...

West Side Story actually started out as East Side Story in Jerome Robbins' original pitch to Bernstein in 1947. Srsly.It set the Irish Catholic Jets against the Jewish Emeralds, which was in keepin...

If you've read Romeo and Juliet, you probably have a pretty good idea how this one ends, and as much as we love Tony and Maria, a future really just isn't in the cards for them. Anita, angry about...

PGEmotional intensity? Yeah, we'll give it that. There are even some people getting killed, which tends to happen when you're portraying an extended gang war. But West Side Story was made while the...