Dorothy is a device that studies tornadoes in this film starring Helen Hunt & Bill Paxton
Twister
Idiomatically, if you're "plain" this, you're unexciting
vanilla
This star of "Catwoman" accepted her Razzie Award for that movie in person, the first actress to do so
Halle Berry
Lager is beer made from bottom-fermenting strains of this; top-fermented types from Britain are ales
yeast
It's a tooth on a gear or on a rim of a wheel
cog
A wild mammal's cave lair... or your dad's
den
For this 1994 film, Sandra Bullock actually learned to drive a bus & passed the licensing test
Speed
Who's a good boy? This type of Lab seen here just chilling
chocolate
She was Gisele in "Fast & Furious" before she was "Wonder Woman"
(Gal) Gadot
Political disputes of today pale in the face of the "Tastes Great!" / "Less Filling!" debates in the '80s over this brand's Lite beer
Miller Lite
The flowing back of a tide
ebb
To challenge the credibility of a witness in court or formally accuse misconduct by a public official
impeach
Character actor J.T. Walshtold a story that made Billy Bob Thornton's Karl very ill at ease in this 1996 film
Sling Blade
This alliterative expression refers to a literal path fraught with troubles
rocky road
"Diary of a Mad Black Woman" was this actor's first time on the big screen as southern matriarch Mabel Simmons
Perry
Planning ahead a bit, he signed a 9,000-year lease in 1759 on the St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin for 45 pounds a year
(Arthur) Guinness
It describes a gradation of color, or color itself
hue
An evil, bewitching spell
a hex
The 1990s saw 2 mob movies co-written by Nicholas Pileggi & directed by Martin Scorsese: "Goodfellas" & this Vegas-set one
Casino
It's the rock classic that begins, "Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom!"
"Tutti Frutti"
This reclusive star's last movie was 1941's "Two-Faced Woman", which came out when she was 36
Greta Garbo
This Dutch beer was "est. 1873" in Amsterdam (Amstel was 1870)
Heineken
To regret a choice, perhaps not learning it's also French for "street"
rue
It's Spanish for "all right" or "good"
bueno
Kat & Bianca Stratford attend Padua High School in this 1999 film loosely based on "The Taming of the Shrew"
10 Things I Hate About You
Beginning & ending with the same letter, it's a term for someone from a big city on Italy's West Coast
Neapolitan
Emerald Fennell won an Oscar for writing this 2020 film in which Carey Mulligan seeks vengeance for a horrible crime
Promising Young Woman
Boasting "America's oldest brewery", this late-in-the-alphabet beermaker offers tours in Pottsville, Pennsylvania
Yuengling
To cause a blemish on something that was perfect
mar
From the Old English for "kill", it means to suppress a riot or rebellion
quell