Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)

Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)

[7] In this ensemble romantic comedy, Steve Carell plays a middle-aged husband and father whose wife (Julianne Moore) breaks the news that she wants a divorce. In Pygmalion fashion, Carell then becomes the pet project of a young metrosexual (Ryan Gosling) whose…
The Talk of the Town (1942)

The Talk of the Town (1942)

[8] Cary Grant plays a prison escapee who hides out in a rental home belonging to Jean Arthur. Arthur takes pity on him, but she's also playing host for Ronald Colman, a visiting law professor whose just been offered a position on…
Juno and the Paycock (1930)

Juno and the Paycock (1930)

[5] Alfred Hitchcock adapts Sean O'Casey's popular stage play about a poor Irish family that inherits a small fortune but ends up losing so much more. Juno (Sara Allgood) is the matriarch, who's constantly cleaning up after her husband (Edward Chapman), 'The…
Coyote vs. ACME (2026)

Coyote vs. ACME (2026)

[4] The Looney Tunes characters (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and company) were at the forefront of pop culture for half a century, but since the 1980s they've been sadly fading from relevance and memory. I grew up watching these characters…
Rhinestone (1984)

Rhinestone (1984)

[3] In the Valley of Misfit Movies, there's a monument to Rhinestone, an infamous box office flop that paired Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton in a country-western comedy. Stallone plays a rough-and-tumble New York cab driver and Parton plays a singer trying…
The Virgin Soldiers (1969)

The Virgin Soldiers (1969)

[6] Hywel Bennett and Lynn Redgrave (Gods and Monsters) lead an ensemble cast in this comedy-drama about young British soldiers stationed in Singapore in 1950. Most of the men are fulfilling their mandatory national service, thankful that any real chance of life-threatening…
Champagne (1928)

Champagne (1928)

[4] The eighth of Alfred HItchcock's nine silent films is one of his most mundane. Betty Balfour stars as an American heiress who defies her father by chartering a plane to intercept her boyfriend on an ocean liner bound for Paris. The…
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)

[9] Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist, Requiem for a Dream) stars as a widowed mother who suddenly finds herself having to start a new life in this engaging comedy/drama from Martin Scorsese that became a popular TV sitcom (Alice). The feature film begins inside…
The Farmer’s Wife (1928)

The Farmer’s Wife (1928)

[5] In this silent comedy from Alfred Hitchcock, a middle-aged farmer and widower (Jameson Thomas) decides to remarry several seasons after the death of his wife. His maid (Lillian Hall-Davis) helps him create a list of eligible women, but each woman turns…
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

[7] In the Deep South of the 1930s, George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson star as convicts who escape a chain gang to seek out buried treasure at Clooney's home. The three men encounter a colorful array of characters on…