To Kill A Mockingbird: I love this movie, I love the book even more, but the movie is almost as good. Gregory Peck is the perfect Atticus Finch, I don't know that anyone could have done a better job, from caring father to powerful orrater and lawyer to first class human being. This is such a powerful story about good and bad people and the world that we live in, it's a classic.

Love Story: This movie is famous, if not infamous, and though I'd never seen it before I realized that I'd seen it in different incarnations: A Walk To Remember, Charley, and others I'm sure. This movie is a well known romance and tear-jerker - in other word it's not something that should be watched after a break up or with a bunch of girls...unless you really want to cry, I've never had that urge but to each their own. It was a pretty good movie and I'm happy to say that I didn't cry. I will admit that my eyes got moist at more that one point because of Ryan O'Neil's puppy dog face but there were no tears. One thing I liked was that it was a slightly more innocent age and though there are love scenes, you're safe watching them. While it was a good movie, I stand by the famous line "Love means never having to say you're sorry." when it was spoofed in What's Up Doc? where Barbra Streisand says the line and Ryan O'Neil replies "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard."

Dear Frankie: This movie was an instant love and not just because it takes place in Scotland where people have beautiful accents. This movie is probably a bit cheesy, but it is such a heart warming movie and I at least, find it hard not to get emotionally involved. A woman, her mother and her son move around a lot so as not to be found by her abusive husband. The woman has a secret from her son: the letters he writes to his father go to a box where his mother gets them and writes back to him as his father. When the boat his father supposedly works on comes to port she tries to find someone to pose as Frankie's father. An interesting note is that the film features BSL (British Sign Language), which is very different than ASL.

Death On The Nile: This was a very good whodunit, I've never read Agretha Christie but the two movies I've seen of her movies have been very good and slightly unnerving. In this you can see Angela Lansbury play a crazy, sex obsessed old lady, and Betty Davis as a thieving old lady and probably some other people you know of. I didn't really see the ending coming.

The Remains of The Day: This was an very interesting movie with Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, James Fox and other great actors. This movie take place in a world that is almost completely foreign to me, England in the earlier part of the twentieth century. It was fascinating to see things that lead up to WWII from the point of view of those living in an English manor house and working in it. It was also staggering to see a time and place where people put themselves and their feelings behind things like their jobs, where their emotions were practically locked away, never to be seen. That is one thing that I like about a good movie, how it's possible to be introduced to lifestyles, ways of thinking and being that are so utterly removed from anything I might have ever considered.

What's Up Doc?: This has got to be one of the funniest movies ever made. It's a screwball comedy with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neil, the plot is quite similar to Bringing Up Baby. This movie is terribly quotable and just absolutely wonderful.

Persuasion: This is a Jane Austin story, and surprisingly I've actually read the book too (I haven't actually read a lot of Austin). Anyway as there are multiple versions of all things Jane Austin I will clarify that this is the version with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds, made in 1995. I like the story of this movie but I think more still I like the way it was filmed, it all feels very real. The music of this movie is also very beautiful. If you're an Austin fan I recommend this version of the movie.

Citizen Kane: So I believe the American Film Institute picked this for their number one movie out of one hundred and so I decided to see if it was really so wonderful. Quite frankly I didn't like this movie really at all, I paused it to do something and thought about just not finishing it but I slogged on. This movie is interestingly filmed and in a way that might have been ground breaking, but it just wasn't for me.

She's The Man: This is first and foremost a chick flick, a really good movie to watch with a bunch of girls and it doesn't hurt if it's later at night. This movie is a silly movie, with pretty boys, pretty girls and also an empowering message to girls. It's not a movie that's probably ever going to win any awards, but it's a good one still, despite being a bit cheesy, I love it both for the movie and for the memories with my roomies.

The Life Of Emile Zola: This is one that got deleted but Citizen Kane reminded me of it. Unlike Citizen Kane, I quite enjoyed The Life Of Emile Zola, it was a very inspiring movie, I found myself wanting to make the world a better place after watching it. I think it's a movie that everyone should see at least once.