Actress Ellen Burstyn (1932)

Draft Day (2014) is an American sports drama film directed by Ivan Reitman, featuring Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner. On the morning of the 2014 NFL Draft, Cleveland Browns general manager Sonny Weaver, Jr. has a difficult choice to make. As he holds the seventh overall pick, he must strategize how to improve his team while also managing personal matters. Domestic issues arise as Ali Parker, the team’s salary cap analyst and pregnant with Weaver’s child, complicates things. Additionally, Sonny’s ...

Interstellar (2014), an epic science fiction film by Christopher Nolan, follows humanity in the near future as it faces extinction due to ecocide-induced global famine. Cooper’s family, including his children Tom and Murph, and father-in-law Donald, works on a farm like most of the surviving population. One night during a dust storm, Cooper and Murph stumble upon a strange gravitational disturbance in her bedroom. This anomaly ultimately leads them to NASA’s secret facility, long thought to be defunct. There they discover that NASA is planning a mission through a wormhole near Saturn to reach three ...

W. (2008) is an American biographical comedy-drama film that tells the story of George W. Bush, directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stanley Weiser. In 1966, George endures an initiation into Delta Kappa Epsilon at Yale University with his fellow students. Despite having a famous political family, he has no interest in their legacy. However, after getting arrested for causing a scene at a football game in New Jersey, his father offers to help him one last time. After graduating from Yale, George takes a short-lived job at an oil patch in Texas before revealing his true ...

The Yards (2000), a film directed and written by James Gray and Matt Reeves respectively, follows Leo Handler as he celebrates his release from prison at his mother Val’s house in Queens, New York. At the surprise party, Leo reconnects with Willie Gutierrez, who thanks him for taking the fall for their group of friends. In need of employment to support his mother’s medical condition, Leo considers working for Erica Soltz’s stepfather, Frank Olchin, at the Electric Rail Corporation in Maspeth. During a meeting with Frank the next day, he offers to fund ...

Playing by Heart (1998) is a comedic-drama film that follows the lives of various characters in Los Angeles. These include an older couple renewing their wedding vows, a theatre director and architect starting anew, a young woman seeking excitement, a gay man with AIDS and his distant mother, an unfaithful couple trying to reignite their marriage, and the husband exploring ways to overcome its dullness. As the plot unfolds, the audience discovers the interconnectedness between these seemingly unrelated individuals. Unhappily wedded Hugh frequently pursues women using a variety of falsehoods: claiming he caused the death of his wife and child in a car accident; stating ...

The American drama film, My Brother’s Keeper (1995), was helmed by director Glenn Jordan. It follows the story of twin brothers, Bo and Tom Bradley, who are both beloved teachers in the Long Island school district. When Tom is diagnosed with HIV, they are presented with an opportunity for a life-saving bone marrow transplant. However, just before the surgery, their insurance company denies coverage, prompting them to take legal action in hopes of saving Tom’s life.

Dying Young (1991) is an American romance film directed by Joel Schumacher, based on the novel of the same name by Marti Leimbach. Hilary O’Neil is a beautiful, outgoing young woman, but she has faced challenges in both work and love. Recently, she left her unfaithful boyfriend and now lives with her eccentric mother. One day, while looking for work, Hilary responds to a newspaper ad for a nurse position. However, she is quickly dismissed before even getting an interview. Victor Geddes is a shy 28-year-old from a wealthy background with a strong education. As the ...

The American romantic comedy drama film, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), directed by Martin Scorsese, follows the story of Alice Hyatt. After her husband Donald, a Coca-Cola delivery driver, is killed in a traffic accident in Socorro, New Mexico, Alice decides to sell most of her belongings and leave with her son Tommy to their childhood home in Monterey, California. Being a former singer, she hopes to revive her abandoned singing career. However, their financial struggles lead them to make a temporary stop in Phoenix, Arizona where Alice finds work as a lounge singer. It is there that she meets Ben, a ...

The Exorcist (1973), an American supernatural horror film, was directed by William Friedkin and adapted from William Peter Blatty’s novel. Priest Lankester Merrin joins an archaeological expedition in the ancient ruins of Hatra in northern Iraq. There, he discovers a stone talisman depicting a winged being that triggers a worried expression on his face. In the midst of his exploration, he has a vision where he is confronted by a giant version of the same creature. Meanwhile, actress Chris MacNeil and her daughter Regan reside in a grandiose house with hired help in ...