Comedy Tragedy Marriage

An unassuming woman discovers there’s far more to the world than her failing laundromat in “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”

Mark Ruffalo plays real life attorney Robert Bilott who took on the massive chemical company DuPont for the residents of a small West Virginia town in 2019’s “Dark Waters.”

Two friends live on a small island off the Irish coast, but a change in their friendship begins a cascade of tragedy in “Banshees of Inisherin.”

Julia Garner plays a low-level assistant in the toxic film production company in 2019’s “The Assistant.”

Two contract killers hide out in a small town in Belgium after a hit goes bad in the 2008 black comedy “In Bruges.”

A group of young American soldiers have a confusing encounter with Germans soldiers during World War II in the 1992 film “A Midnight Clear.”

Ralph Parker goes home to say goodbye to his old man in “A Christmas Story Christmas.”

Kelsey Grammer stars in this 2004 musical version of Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol.”

The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future come across the toughest soul they’ve ever tried to redeem in the Apple TV+ musical comedy “Spirited.”

A woman discovers a family, and culture, she didn’t know existed in “Love, Lights, Hanukkah.”

A murder in a London theater in 1953 brings together a world weary detective and a green police constable in “See How They Run.”

You have several choices if you want to see a film adaption of Louisa May Alcott’s novel, “Little Women,” but you could do worse than the 1949 version.

Steve Martin and John Candy shine in John Hughes road trip comedy “Planes, Trains & Automobiles.”

Before Dark Shadows, before Salem’s Lot, before Twilight, there was Bela Lugosi as “Dracula.”

It’s a movie about coming of age, about overcoming adversity, about friendship through thick and thin, and about gross monsters.

Two movies made two years apart about the same main character are very different in style, tone and quality.

Evil continues to stalk the streets of Georgetown in William Peter Blatty’s “The Exorcist III” starring George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller and Brad Dourif.

A couple moves into an old house with a troubled past that colors their future in “Things Heard & Seen.”

Nick and Nora and baby Nicky makes three as the new addition doesn’t slow down the murders in “Another Thin Man.”

Nick and Nora Charles pick up right where they left off in “After the Thin Man.”

I don’t know for certain 1934’s “The Thin Man” created the sexy comedic thriller, but it was probably one of the first.

For over 30 years, actor Peter Falk portrayed a rumpled detective in “Columbo” on TV. We recently completed a rewatch of the entire series and these are our thoughts on how much we enjoyed it.

A young girl has the choice to stay on her idyllic South Pacific island and watch it die, or defy her chief/father, leave the island and try to save it in Disney’s “Moana.”

Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga star as two women living very different lives in 2021’s “Passing.”

Paul Newman is an aging minor league hockey coach trying to rally his group of misfit players in a dying Rust Belt town in 1977’s “Slap Shot.”