Comedy Tragedy Marriage

Maude’s introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues with “Captain America: The First Avenger.”

While amazingly talented, Billie Holiday lived a tragically short life filled with pain, heartache, betrayal, drugs, booze and the music she filled with her soul.

He may be the God of Thunder, but he needs to learn he’s not the center of the universe in Thor, starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Tom Hiddleston.

Roger Ailes made Fox News incredibly popular and profitable while also making it his sexual hunting ground. His downfall is dramatized in the 2019 film “Bombshell.”

Frances McDormand lives the van life in the subtle, beautiful and devastating “Nomadland,” directed by Chloe Zhao and available to stream on Hulu.

Olson Welles famously considered “The Magnificent Ambersons” the biggest betrayal by Hollywood of his career as the final edit was taken away from him and much of his work was changed. Still, the film is considered among the greatest films of all time. But is it?

The Coen Brothers wrote and directed this modern Western thriller from a book by Cormac McCarthy. It is poetry both in the writing and the cinematography and is available to stream on HBOMax.

Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb were famous from their teenage years on, blending harmonies born of their brotherly bond and songwriting that spoke of love and longing. From the ups and downs of their musical careers to the struggles of maintaining their relationship in the glare of the spotlight, “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” follows the Brothers Gibb through the good times and the bad.

Cultures clash and vital signs crash in the based-on-a-true-story romantic comedy “The Big Sick,’ starring Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano.

The covert war with the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, funded largely by one Texas congressman, is the subject of “Charlie Wilson’s War,” starring Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julia Roberts.