You Can’t Take It With You: Enjoy It Now
Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold. Photo: Columbia With It Happened One Night (1934), Frank Capra had already won an Oscar for Best Director. The same honor…
Green Book
In the early 1960s, New York City bouncer Tony ”Lip” (Viggo Mortensen) is hired by an African-American concert pianist (Mahershala Ali) for a tour through the Deep South; he’ll serve…
A Very English Scandal
In 1961, Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant) has a romantic affair with a troubled young man, Norman (Ben Whishaw); as Thorpe’s political career takes off, Norman gets back in…
The Favourite: All the Queen’s Women
Emma Stone and Olivia Colman. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures During the PR campaign for this film, Rachel Weisz called it ”a funnier, sex-driven All About Eve”. Is there a better…
White
When his French wife (Julie Delpy) wants a divorce because he can’t satisfy her, Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski) loses everything… but gets a new chance back in Poland. The second…
Miracle on 34th Street
Macy’s event director Doris Walker (Maureen O’Hara) hires Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) as a santa, first for the Thanksgiving Day Parade and then at the Macy’s store… but it turns…
All About Eve: Blind Ambition
Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. Photo: 20th Century Fox I have no idea if the following is true, but it fits nicely into the mythology. Celeste Holm allegedly walked onto…
Holy Mess
Simon and Oscar (Anastasios Soulis, Anton Lundqvist) invite their whole families for Christmas… but haven’t told them that a woman is moving in and that they’re all having a baby.…
A Man Called Ove
59-year-old widower Ove (Rolf Lassgård) was recently fired and plans to join his wife in heaven as soon as possible… but his suicide keeps getting stalled. Fredrik Backman’s novel first…
Birdman: A Box-Office Lion in Winter
Michael Keaton. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures Director Alejandro González Iñárritu reportedly sat down with the legendary Mike Nichols for dinner to discuss his next project, a comedy that would be…