Christopher P. Jacobs

Last April was the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death.

Jodie Foster today is known primarily as a film director and as an Oscar-winning actress for “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) and “The Accused” (1988).

Last summer marked the ten-year anniversary that the Blu-ray home video format has been on the market.

These classics may be fun to revisit, but it’s also fun to watch or re-watch films that can provide entertaining escapism any time of the year.

It’s an amusing portrait of working-class life with man and his family attempting to forge a better life and maintain their personal sense of what is right.