Kathy Bates loves playing a "curmudgeon" in 'Harry's Law'. The 63-year-old actress plays lead character Harriet Korn - a recently fired patent lawyer, who now runs a criminal defence firm out of a ...

Inspired by this story, Backman created a curmudgeonly character named “Ove,” and began to write blog posts about his pet peeves and annoyances, and called the column, “I Am a Man Called Ove ...

Movie review of “A Man Called Ove”: Rolf Lassgard won SIFF’s Golden Space Needle for best actor for this Swedish portrait of a suicidal curmudgeon. Rating: 3 stars out of 4.

★★★★M) 116 minutes. You have to love a bloke who's fighting his own personal viking wars all the time, one at a time. Ove (pronounced Oo-vay) is 59 years old and a stickler for the rules.

This week, the Cartoon Lounge sat down with Josh Fruhlinger, the Comics Curmudgeon. Cartoon Lounge: Hi Josh. Tell us a little bit about what you do. Josh… ...

Based on Swedish writer Fredrik Backman's 2012 bestseller, the movie is formulaic in the manner of "St. Vincent" and "Gran Torino," which were also about the curmudgeon next door: a fist-shaking ...

GreenLion Gallery at 150 E. Fulton Street, the newest art venue to open near downtown Grand Rapids, is a wonderful space. Track-lighting, hardwood floors and muted walls exude that look-but-don't ...

The title character in "A Man Called Otto" (Tom Hanks) is described as a "nasty bitter man" by someone he encounters, however, what others see as rude is really Otto expressing his inability to ...