Comedy Tragedy Marriage

Being on the jury of a murder trial is stressful. Being on the jury of a murder trial when you might actually be the one responsible for the death is a whole new level of stress. Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, JK Simmons and more star in the Clint Eastwood directed “Juror #2.”

It’s a TV show about a play within a movie. Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” plays with all the standard Wes Anderson toys but in a unique way.

A New York City cop travels to Los Angeles on Christmas Eve trying to reconcile with his estranged wife at her company’s holiday party when terrorists take over Nakatomi Plaza and he becomes a one-man army to save 30 hostages, his wife and his marriage in 1988’s “Die Hard.”

Keeping the Christmas spirit alive may be the key to surviving the holidays for one family in “Krampus.”

A good, old fashioned, family Christmas is all Clark Griswold wanted. What he gets is an ever unfolding disaster in 1989’s “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”

Robert Zemeckis used motion capture to create all the characters in 2004’s “The Polar Express.” It’s a story about holiday belief starring Tom Hanks.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a theologian and anti-Nazi activist in Hitler’s Germany. It was dangerous to have opposing views to the government of WWII Germany and Dietrich paid the ultimate price. His life is the subject of the film “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin.”

It’s the end of the world and Humanity has one hope in 1951’s “When Worlds Collide.”

The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West colored a great deal of American cinema. That is evident in 1953’s “The War of the Worlds.”

There are friends, there are enemies, there are frenemies and then there is “Deadpool & Wolverine.”