Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn, 2014)

Cast: Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Samuel L. Jackson, Sofia Boutella, Michael Caine, Fiona Hampton, Samantha Womack, Mark Hamill, Jack Davenport. Screenplay: Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn, based on a comic book by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons. Cinematography: George Richmond. Production design: Paul Kirby. Film editing: Eddie Hamilton, John Harris. Music: Henry Jackman, Matthew Margeson. 

Torch Singer (Alexander Hall, George Somnes, 1933)

Cast: Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners, Lyda Roberti, Baby LeRoy, Charley Grapewin, Sam Godfrey, Florence Roberts, Virginia Hammond, Mildred Washington, Cora Sue Collins, Helen Jerome Eddy, Albert Conti, Ethel Griffies. Screenplay: Lenore J. Coffee, Lynn Starling, based on a story by Grace Perkins. Cinematography: Karl Struss. Costume design: Travis Banton. Film editing: Eda Warren. Music: Ralph Rainger. 

Claudette Colbert displays a contralto singing voice athrob with vibrato in Torch Singer. She also runs the gamut from suffering unwed mother forced to put her infant daughter up for adoption to hard-bitten nightclub singer who sins her way to success. It's not a great performance either vocally or dramatically -- Colbert seems to be channeling Mae West's attitudes and mannerisms -- but it's fun to watch. The plot hinges on whether she will reunite not only with her daughter but also with the man who done her wrong. What do you think? 

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)

Cast (voices): Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Sujimura, Hisako Kyoda, Goro Naya, Ichiro Nagai, Kobei Miyauchi, Joji Yanami, Minoru Yada. Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki. Cinematography: Yasuhiro Shimizu, Koji Shiragami, Yukitomo Shudo, Mamoru Sugiura. Art direction: Mitsuki Nakamura. Film editing: Naoki Kaneko, Tomoko Kida, Shoji Sakai. Music: Joe Hisaishi.  

Never Open That Door (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1952)

Cast: Ángel Magaña, Renée Dumas, Nicolás Fregues, Diana de Córdoba, Roberto Escalada, Ilde Pirovano, Norma Giménez, Luis Otero. Screenplay: Alejandro Casona, based on stories by Cornell Woolrich. Cinematography: Pablo Tabernero. Production design: Gori Muñoz. Film editing: José Gallego. Music: Julián Bautista. 

The Fall Guy (David Leitch, 2024)

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddington, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu, Winston Duke. Screenplay: Drew Pearson. Cinematography: Jonathan Sela. Production design: David Scheunemann. Film editing: Elisabet Ronaldsdóttir. Music: Dominic Lewis. 

Hester Street (Joan Micklin Silver, 1975)

Cast: Carol Kane, Steven Keats, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Doris Roberts, Stephen Strimpel, Lauren Friedman, Paul Freedman, Martin Garner, Leib Lensky, Zane Lasky, Zvee Scooler, Eda Reiss Merin. Screenplay: Joan Micklin Silver, based on a novel by Abraham Cahan. Cinematography: Kenneth Van Sickle. Production design: Stuart Wurtzel. Film editing: Katherine Wenning. Music: William Bolcom, Herbert L. Clarke. 

Gitl (Carol Kane) joins her immigrant husband Yankel (Steven Keats) in turn-of-the-century New York City, and discovers that he is no longer the modest, religiously observant man she knew in the old country. He has picked up American slang, while she speaks only Yiddish, and calls himself Jake while insisting that their son, Yossele (Paul Freedman) be called Joey. He has also taken up with a flashy Americanized woman named Mamie (Dorrie Kavanaugh). With the help of their neighbor, Mrs. Kavarsky (Doris Roberts), Gitl learns how to adapt to the new world, shed herself of Jake, and find a new, more suitable husband. Kane received an Oscar nomination for best actress in writer-director Joan Micklin Silver's first feature. Low-key, warm-hearted, and amusing, Hester Street evokes silent movies in its well-crafted depiction of the era in which it's set.