THE LAUNDROMAT (2019)

Directed By: Steven Soderbergh 
Written By: Scott Z. Burns 
Based on the Book “Secrecy World: Inside The Panama Papers Investigation Of Illicit Money Networks and The Global Elite” By: Jake Bernstein 
Cinematography: Peter Andrews 
Editor: Mary Ann Bernard 


Cast: Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas, Gary Oldman, Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer, James Cromwell, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Larry Wilmore, Rosalind Chao, Matthias Schoenaerts, Nonso Anozie, Miracle Washington, Jessica Allain, Jay Paulson, Melissa Rauch, Will Forte, Chris Parnell 


A widow investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world's financial system. It feels like this films almost a lesson with dramatization added. Based on the Panama papers. It seems like Meryl Streep is the audience surrogate in a buerocratic international video game. Where through her experience we learn all about this situation really about fraud and international banking.

DEATH BECOMES HER (1992)

Directed By: Robert Zemeckis 
Written By: David Koepp & Martin Donovan 
Cinematography By: Dean Cundey 
Editor: Arthur Schmidt


Cast: Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini, Michelle Johnson, Alaina Reed Hall, Adam Storke, Fabio, Debra Jo Rupp, Jonathan Silverman, Ian Ogilvy, Mary Ellen Trainor  

When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.

LEMONY SNICKET'S: A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS (2004)

Directed By: Brad Silberling 
Written By: Robert Gordon 
Based On The Books written By: Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler 
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezski 
Editor: Michael Kahn 

Cast: Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Meryl Streep, Timothy Spall, Billy Connelly, Catherine O’Hara, Cedric The Entertainer, Jennifer Coolidge, Luis Guzman, Jane Adams, Craig Ferguson, Lenny Clarke 


Three children - Violet , Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire - are left orphaned when their house burns down, with their parents in it, in mysterious circumstances. They are left in the custody of a distant relative, Count Olaf. It is soon apparent that Count Olaf only cares about the children for their large inheritance.

DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (1991)

Written & Directed By: Albert Brooks 
Cinematography By: Allen Daviau 
Editor: David Finfer 


Cast: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Buck Henry, James Eckhouse, Susan Walters, Mary Pat Gleason, Ethan Embry, 


Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City, a waiting room for the afterlife. During the day, he must prove in a courtroom-style process that he successfully overcame his fears (a hard task, given the pitiful life we are shown); at night, he falls in love with Julia, the only other young person in town. Nights are a time of hedonistic pleasure, since you can (for instance) eat all you want without getting fat.

SILKWOOD (1983)

Directed By: Mike Nichols 
Written By: Nora Ephron & Alice Arlen 
Cinematography By: Miroslav Ondricek 
Editor: Sam O’Steen 


Cast: Meryl Streep, Cher, Kurt Russell, Bruce McGill, Diana Scarwid, Ron Silver, Fred Ward, Craig T. Nelson, Josef Sommer, Charles Hallahan, Alice Arlen, James Rebhorn, Ray Baker, Anthony Heald, Bill Cobbs, Will Patton, Tess Harper, M. Emmett Walsh 


Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.

INTO THE WOODS (2014)

Directed By: Rob Marshall 
Written By: James Lapine 
Based On The Musical, Music & Lyrics By: Stephen Sondheim & James LaPine 
Cinematography By: Dion Beebe 
Editor: Wyatt Smith 


Cast: Meryl Streep, James Corden, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Tracy Ullman, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp, Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Punch, Daniel Huttlestone, Lilla Crawford, Billy Magnussen, Mackenzie Mauzy, Simon Russel Beale 


*Please note that some trivia and facts have been republished from imdb among other sources In this review