Out this week, a new raucous comedy musical starring newcomers Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. Last Monday night, a group of Culchies went along to see a preview of this new film Singin’ in the Rain in the relaunched Screen Cinema and we were all bowled over. In glorious technicolour, we were taken on a journey in this film that will surely win Oscars, if only for it’s star Gene Kelly. The saga begins in 1927, at a glamorous Hollywood premiere, as the star-struck fans push forward for a quick glance at two of their idols - Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly), a dashing leading man of the silent screen, and Linda Lamont (Jean Hagen), a self-absorbed but highly popular blonde bombshell. Don and his friend Cosmo Brown (Donald O’Connor) tolerate Linda but laugh at her endless efforts to woo Don as her husband. Just as Don finds himself taken with … There’s more →