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…

The Sting: Good-Hearted Grifters

Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Photo: Universal One of David S. Ward's first scripts introduced us to the world of confidence men. Not that they hadn't been seen on screen…

The Apartment: Executive Privilege

Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Photo: United Artists When Billy Wilder saw Brief Encounter (1945), where Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard have their rendezvous in an apartment belonging to a…

American Beauty: Beyond Italian Upholstery

Mena Suvari. Photo: DreamWorks The story of how American Beauty, one of the most celebrated films of the 1990s, was made is the story of how a struggling TV writer…

Hitchcock 

Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) is on top of his game, but when he decides to turn a real-life story about a deranged murderer who shared a bed with his dead…

Driving Miss Daisy: The Burden of an Oscar

Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy. Photo: Warner When people list the movies they feel did not deserve to win a Best Picture Oscar, this one often comes up. I agree.…

Harry’s Law 

Another legal series from David E. Kelley, this time focusing on a recently fired patent lawyer (Kathy Bates) who formed a small law firm in a shoe store in one…

Diary of a Mad Black Woman 

After cheating on and abusing her throughout their 18 years of marriage, wealthy attorney Charles McCarter (Steve Harris) finally kicks his wife (Kimberly Elise) out; her family helps her rebuild…