Joker (2019)
Joker is a gritty, grimy, and nihilistic R-rated origin story on the classic “Batman” villain, directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Set in a crime-ridden Gotham City sometime...
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The King of Comedy (1982)
The King of Comedy isn’t so much a comedy in the traditional sense, although it might be classified as a twisted, and quite tragic, comedy of errors. It is also a scathing satire on...
The Late Shift (1996)
The Late Shift is a made-for-HBO feature film docudrama, based on the book by Bill Carter (who adapted this into a screenplay), that aims to give us an inside peek at the two forces...
Someone Like You… (2001)
After watching Someone Like You, you might wonder why they slapped on such a generic title when the title of the book it’s based on is called “Animal Attraction” (which is also what the film...
Hope Floats (1998)
A former beauty queen (Bullock, The Net) learns of her husband’s infidelity with her best friend on a talk show, and runs off to her small hometown in Texas to live with her mother after sinking...
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
A widower’s (Hanks, A League of Their Own) love life has been zero since the death of his beloved wife a year and a half ago. His 8-year-old son calls a nationally broadcast advice program and...