Tag: Aaron Jackson
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Flying Genitalia, Profanity and a Scene-Stealing Megan Thee Stallion: A24’s Insane ‘Dicks: The Musical’ Brings Unhinged Energy to Toronto Film Festival
A raucous, deliriously madcap midnight premiere of “Dicks: The Musical” closed out the first day of the Toronto Film Festival. A24’s first-ever musical, which leans hard into its R-rating and puts an irreverent, queer spin on “The Parent Trap,” played to laughs, cheers, audible gasps and shrieks and, yes, a few groans from the Royal…
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‘Dicks: The Musical’ Review: From a Gay God to Twincest, A24’s Absurdist Satire Must Be Seen to Be Believed
What are the odds that two openly gay cut-ups doing a raunchy half-hour musical comedy routine in a Gristede’s grocery store would somehow convince “Borat” director Larry Charles to turn their show, “Fucking Identical Twins,” into a feature-length A24 movie? You’d stand a better chance playing the lottery than predicting the path “Dicks: The Musical”…
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‘Dicks: The Musical’: Everything We Know About Megan Thee Stallion’s A24 Comedy
From the director of Borat and the producers of The Greatest Showman, now comes A24’s most surprising project in its overall project lineup, Dicks: The Musical. This unique comedy-musical marks A24’s first foray into this genre, injecting a refreshing twist into the traditional twins trope. The Larry Charles-directed film stars Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp,…
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Trailer Watch: Larry Charles’s Dicks: The Musical
Just announced as the world-premiering opening night title of TIFF’s Midnight Madness program, a trailer arrives for Borat director Larry Charles’s latest film Dicks: The Musical. The first musical to be distributed by A24, the film was written by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, based on their stage play Fucking Identical Twins: The Musical. Jackson…
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Dicks: The Musical Trailer: The First Musical From A24 Sings Into Theaters This September
You’ve seen A24 films about somewhat literal man-eating aliens (“Under the Skin“), people being turned into walruses (“Tusk”), farting corpses (“Swiss Army Man“), talking shells (“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On“), and the multiverse (“Everything Everywhere All at Once“). Now, the studio is trying its hand at a musical for the first time with “Dicks:…