In A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a cynical journalist named Lloyd Vogel is assigned to write a 400-word article on Fred Rogers for the magazine Esquire, but he is so impressed by Rogers’ genuineness that it ends up being a 10,000-word article instead. Vogel is estranged from his father, in large part because his…
Little Women is based on the novel by the same name and written by Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of four young ladies and their mother, who are trying to survive on their own while their father is off fighting the American Civil War. The girls’ names are Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth,…
Irresistible is a political comedy that was written and directed by Jon Stewart of The Daily Show fame. It is the story of a veteran Democratic Party campaign consultant named Gary Zimmer, who was discouraged by the results of the 2016 presidential election and believes that if he can find a Democrat to win the…
Johnny English Strikes Again is an action spy film that’s a comedy and stars Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English. The movie is the sequel to Johnny English Reborn, which came out in 2011, and it is the third installment of the Johnny English series. Johnny English is an M17 agent who gets called into action…
Judy is a biographical drama about American actress Judy Garland, who started out as part of a vaudeville family and eventually became a bigger child star than Shirley Temple. Her most iconic role was playing Dorothy Gale in the movie The Wizard of Oz, which she did while still a teenager. The movie Judy follows…
Cordelia is a psychological thriller about a young woman who comes to London as an actress and rents a basement apartment with her twin sister, Caroline, and Caroline’s boyfriend Matt. In the beginning, it is discovered that Cordelia has been through something traumatic in the past, although the audience doesn’t know what it is. Nevertheless,…
Widows is the story of four women who set out to steal $5 million from a politician. Why? Because before the ladies’ husbands were all killed in a botched getaway attempt, they stole $2 million from a crime boss, whom the women now believe they need to repay. The crime boss, Jamal Manning, needs the…
Set in South Texas ranch country, Wild Horses starts when a Texas Ranger named Samantha Payne decides to reopen a 15-year-old missing persons case but soon finds her life is in danger. The young man who went missing was involved with the son of a wealthy rancher named Scott Briggs. When Briggs discovers the two…
The movie In Dubious Battle is based on a 1936 novel by John Steinbeck and is based mostly on events that happened in 1933 during the labor strikes in California. In the story, it is the height of the Depression and hundreds of apple pickers in the fictional Torgas Valley orchard are earning $1 per…
Georgetown is a prestigious area of Washington, DC, and was home to Albrecht Muth, called Ulrich Mott in the movie Georgetown. Muth was a grifter, social climber, and a seemingly professional liar. In his late forties, Muth was 44 years younger than his wife, a woman named Elsa Brecht in the film but who is…