Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
[7] Cary Grant leads a wacky ensemble for director Frank Capra’s film adaptation of Joseph Kesselring’s crowd-pleasing stage play, Arsenic and Old Lace. Grant plays […]
Comedy
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
[7] Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry produced and wrote the adapted screenplay for this supremely odd but beguiling movie directed by Roger Vadim (Barbarella). Rock […]
The Birdcage (1996)
[8] A gay couple who own a drag show cabaret must pretend to be straight when their son invites his fiancée’s Christian conservative family to […]
Used Cars (1980)
[7] Before they struck box office gold with Back to the Future, co-writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale offered up this wacky dark comedy about […]
Night of the Comet (1984)
[4] After a comet wipes out most of Earth’s population, a valley girl and her sister roam the empty streets of Los Angeles fighting zombies […]
Search for Beauty (1934)
[6] Three con artists trick two celebrity athletes into serving as editors for a new ‘Health and Fitness’ magazine. The athletes (Buster Crabbe and Ida […]
The Holdovers (2023)
[9] One of the surest ways a film can win my heart is by letting me into the lives of characters aching for healing who […]
Slap Shot (1977)
[7] Paul Newman stars as an aging ice hockey coach and player who tries to salvage his team’s careers by leaning into on-ice violence and […]
The Great Outdoors (1988)
[6] John Candy and Dan Aykroyd costar as prickly brothers-in-law who try their best to get along after Aykroyd unceremoniously crashes Candy’s planned family vacation. […]
Funny Pages (2022)
[5] A teenaged underground cartoonist (Daniel Zolghadri) seeks the company of bizarre, questionable characters in the hopes it might inspire his work. He shuns his […]