Comedy Tragedy Marriage

Comic, actor, mimic, improviser Robin Williams was a genius at making people laugh, cry, and cry with laughter. His life and far untimely death are explored in the documentary “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind.”

She was the Queen of Disco but there was so much more to know about Donna Summer. We learn some of what we want to know in the MAX documentary “Love to Love You: Donna Summer.”

A young princess with magical powers needs to figure out how to control her abilities and not hurt her sister and her kingdom in Disney’s “Frozen.”

She was a TV icon of the 1960’s and 1970’s, breaking boundaries in the depiction of women. She was viewed as America’s sweetheart but she was so much more. Learn about her in “Being Mary Tyler Moore.”

Idris Elba plays an eternal, magical djinn and Tilda Swinton is the academic that releases him from his bottle in 2022’s “3000 Years of Longing.”

Backup singers are the unsung heroes of recoded and live music. A few of them get the spotlight for the first time in the 2013 documentary “20 Feet From Stardom.”

Tom Hanks stars as a man trying to kill himself but life and his neighbors keep getting in the way in “A Man Called Otto.”

Maude selected a favorite book made into a new movie “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.”

Seth Rogan, Jay Baruchel, James Franco and more star as themselves in the stoner End-of-Days comedy “This Is The End.”

Maude selected two comedy specials; Leanne Morgan’s “I’m Every Woman,” and Mae Martin’s “SAP.” Two very different specials from very different comics, both available on Netflix.