Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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 Mortimer Brewster, a newlywed stopping by the Brooklyn home of the two elderly aunts who raised him…
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)

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 Hudson headlines as a high school football coach and guidance counselor who gets intimate with the students…
The Birdcage (1996)

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 meet them for dinner. The Birdcage is an American remake of a French film, which is based…
Used Cars (1980)

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 used car salesmen trying to save their run-down lot from a hostile takeover. Kurt Russell stars as…
Night of the Comet (1984)

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 and entangling with a shady group of scientists who want to harvest their blood. Night of the…
Search for Beauty (1934)

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 Lupino) soon learn they are just figureheads meant to draw credibility and increase circulation for the publication…
The Holdovers (2023)

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 achieve genuine, emotional human connection. It's why I love films like Pump Up the Volume, The Breakfast…
Slap Shot (1977)

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 wrestling-like theatrics, what the players call 'goonery'. The effort works, leading to a winning streak, publicity, and…
The Great Outdoors (1988)

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. The Great Outdoors was spawned from the ever-prolific pen of John Hughes, coming off a string of…
Funny Pages (2022)

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 parents and moves in with a couple of middle-aged men who watch old cartoons in a sweltering…