Comedy Tragedy Marriage

There aren’t many fantasies more popular than going back to WWII and killing Hitler. Your dreams come true in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.”

It’s another version of Charles Dickens classic tale of greed and redemption, but this time there’s songs and dance in “Scrooge” starring Albert Finley.

Will Ferrell plays a grown man raised by Santa’s elves at the North Pole in the modern Christmas classic “Elf.”

Rod Serling wrote a version of “A Christmas Carol” that reflected his views on war and greed called “A Carol for Another Christmas.”

I had warm yet hazy positive feelings of this 1985 bomb. Would it hold up to a viewing over 30 years later?

The life and trials of mathematics genius Alan Turing are explored in “The Imitation Game” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.

When aliens land on Earth, it brings out the best and worst in humanity in 2016’s “Arrival.”

A group of rebels and hippies operate an unlicensed radio station off the coast of England in the 1960’s giving their audience what they want and the British government the “finger” in 2009’s “Pirate Radio.”

A grieving, elderly man finds a unique solution to the gentrification of his neighborhood in Disney/Pixar’s “UP.”

A mad alien scientist, a lost virginal couple on a dark stormy night and a house full of freaks make for a long night of time warping and sexual awakening in the 1975 midnight movie classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”