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Gregory Peck won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a crusading lawyer in the Depression-era South in “To Kill A Mockingbird.”

Memories of a childhood trip led to this week’s selection of the 1965 sci-if disaster film “Crack in the World.”

Based on a Tennessee Williams one-act play, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift star in the Southern Gothic potboiler “Suddenly, Last Summer.”

Christopher Nolan pours all of his filmmaking know how into the lush, dense and grand historical epic about the man who led the effort to develop the atomic bomb in “Oppenheimer.”

Margaret Atwood wrote about a dystopian future in 1984 that seems far closer to reality than it should. We watched the 1990 (or 1989, depending on your source) film version of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

Stan and Maude jump in Quentin Tarantino’s Time Machine, traveling to 1969 to view the revised history of Sharon Tate and the Manson family in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

This 1957 film is perhaps more relevant now than when it debuted. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb and more star in “12 Angry Men.”

Wes Anderson made “The French Dispatch” as a tribute to writers. His love for the written word is on full display in this 2021 film.

Robin Williams first successful film (following a raunchy comedy and the big budget bomb “Popeye”) was based on a John Irving novel “The World According to Garp.”

Comic, actor, mimic, improviser Robin Williams was a genius at making people laugh, cry, and cry with laughter. His life and far untimely death are explored in the documentary “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind.”

She was the Queen of Disco but there was so much more to know about Donna Summer. We learn some of what we want to know in the MAX documentary “Love to Love You: Donna Summer.”

A young princess with magical powers needs to figure out how to control her abilities and not hurt her sister and her kingdom in Disney’s “Frozen.”

She was a TV icon of the 1960’s and 1970’s, breaking boundaries in the depiction of women. She was viewed as America’s sweetheart but she was so much more. Learn about her in “Being Mary Tyler Moore.”

Idris Elba plays an eternal, magical djinn and Tilda Swinton is the academic that releases him from his bottle in 2022’s “3000 Years of Longing.”

Backup singers are the unsung heroes of recoded and live music. A few of them get the spotlight for the first time in the 2013 documentary “20 Feet From Stardom.”

Tom Hanks stars as a man trying to kill himself but life and his neighbors keep getting in the way in “A Man Called Otto.”

Maude selected a favorite book made into a new movie “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.”

Seth Rogan, Jay Baruchel, James Franco and more star as themselves in the stoner End-of-Days comedy “This Is The End.”

Maude selected two comedy specials; Leanne Morgan’s “I’m Every Woman,” and Mae Martin’s “SAP.” Two very different specials from very different comics, both available on Netflix.

A high-end restaurant located on a secluded island becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience for a select few in 2022’s “The Menu.”

Brendan Fraser won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in “The Whale.” It’s an impressive performance, but is it a good movie? Maude and I discuss.

Seven children confront a horror beyond their understanding and must return as adults to fight it again in the 1990 ABC miniseries “IT” based on the novel by Stephen King.

A long-married husband and wife share a secret that could destroy their idyllic life in 2017’s “The Wife.”

The horrors of war is the featured star in the Oscar nominated Netflix film “All Quiet On the Western Front.”

Based on a true story, America’s success at the beginning of the space race is owed largely to a group of African-American mathematicians in 2016’s “Hidden Figures.”