Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: So some movies you hear are terrible and despite that you still are curious and you want to know if they really are as bad as everyone says? At least I do. This movie really was about like everyone said. It wasn't the best idea to have an Indiana Jones movie with the main characters in their 60s, and some movies, to me at least, are better without high tech special effects; in Raiders of the Lost Ark the effects are not so great by today's standards, but that's part of the charm of that movie I think. Any way this movie was akin to the Sandlot 2, in that it was hanging onto Raiders, it tried to recreate a lot of the scenes but it just wasn't the same. As for Shia LeBouff, we won't even go there.

Charade: Audrey Hepburn and Carey Grant are great in this movie. Charade is a good mix between romantic comedy and thriller. I go back to this movie time and time again.

The Other Side of Heaven: This movie is about Elder John Groberg and his LDS mission to Tonga. A lot of movies about or made by Mormons tend to be on the cheesy side, and while this one is a little bit it's much better. The movie is based on facts (I don't know enough about it to know how closely they followed what happened but I feel like it's very close.) The movie is filmed...well I don't know that it's actually Tonga but it's in the Pacific Islands somewhere and it's breath takingly beautiful. Elder Groberg went to Tonga in the 50s when most people were fairly unfamiliar with Tonga, he spent his mission on a small island. This movie is quite exciting, amazing things happened to Elder Groberg. If you are unfamiliar with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (also known as Mormons) this movie is a good way to learn more.

The Sandlot 2: As far as this movie is a continuation made several years after the original move, it's not too bad, that being said you might as well just stick with the original movie.

Howard's End: I'd heard about this movie and I'm a fan of Emma Thompson, however I didn't enjoy this movie, I found it terribly depressing. I also don't really understand this movie and I'm sure that doesn't help matters any.

Just Like Heaven: This movie is a cute, funny and utterly impossible chick flick.

White Christmas: I don't know if this movie is really all that amazing, however it is a holiday classic and tradition. It's funny how so many "Christmas" movies really have little to do with the holiday. White Christmas is still an enjoyable movie with great song and dance numbers. I wish it would snow again even though we had a white Christmas.
The Italian Job: First off I wish to clarify that this in not the more recent version with Mark Walberg, etc. this is the original movie with Michael Caine. I imagine you weren't aware that there was an original version, nor was I, I got this version by mistake from the library. This movie really is rather dreadful. The ending was appalling, the plot was weak, I would recommend just passing on this movie all together unless you want to see it for the beautiful scenery in the Alps.

The Muppet Christmas Carol: I think this is probably the best version of the Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens that you could ever see. Michael Caine is Scrooge, Kermit the Frog is Bob Cratchett while Gonzo and Rizzo narrate. This is a very unique version and very funny.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: This movie is interesting, and I found similarities in it to Just Like Heaven with Reese Witherspoon. It was an interesting movie but not really one that lingers with you. It's a nice movie but not one that I'd go back to time and time again.

Mrs. Miniver: This movie was one of the many war propaganda movies, movies meant to make the people who saw it think that the enemy was kniving and evil, that this was their war to protect the country they loved. Mrs. Miniver takes place in a small little village in England and is about how the people in this town, focusing on Mrs. Miniver and her family, make their efforts to keep their England safe. I think the women's movment towards equality of the sexes got a boost durring the war, wartime women could not afford to be weak, fainting things, they had their families and homes to protect.

Martian Child: This movie was really good. It also made me cry.

Howl's Moving Castle: This is an anamaie movie by Hyao Miyazaki which is likely spelled incorrectly but at any rate his movies are pretty amazing and Howl's Moving Castle is one of my favorite. I've seen the movie both in Japanese with subtitles and voiced over and I have to say that I prefer the voice over, but it might be because I saw the voice over version first...and because Christian Bale voiced over Howl. The world that this movie takes place in is like our own but completely different, and purely magical. This movie has messages both about war and about beauty, a lot of Miyazaki movies seem to.

While You Were Sleeping: A friend and I were quoting this movie as we got her Christmas tree ("I should have gotten a blue spruce, they're lighter!") and so we decided to watch it. This movie is a classic for me, I don't think I will ever get tired of it, no matter how many times I've seen it. This movie has comedy and drama and a really great cast of supporting characters. I love it.

Enchanted April: This movie takes place in the 20s and I love seeing the fashions from the 20s. The movie is very good, heart warming but it's also a tad strange.

You've Got Mail: I watched this movie because I read that it was a remake of Shop Around the Corner. The plots of the two movies are quite similar but You've Got Mail is updated for 1998 and tweaked a little bit from the original. It's an interesting premise that two people can hate each other and love each other at the same time...however I think a lot of stories whether in film or print, have some reference to this idea. I wonder why that's one that has occurred so much and if it's a case of art reflecting life. I prefer Shop Around the Corner but this is also a good movie, it's the same as I feel about the versions of Sabrina.

Oceans 11: I've never seen the original movie with the Rat Pack, but I'm referring to the latest version. It's pretty cool to see all the devious things that were planned up in order to knock over three casinos. It's been a while since I saw the movie though and I'd forgotten just how much swearing was in the movie though. I suppose in a way Danny and his crew are the underdogs and we all root for them.

Desk Set: I liked this movie, it's a comedy but through the advance of technology it's a bit more comical than was originally planned on. At the heart of this movies plot is the issue of man (or in this case woman) verses machine. There's also an element of feminism in there that I enjoyed. Katherine Hepburn is marvelous in this movie.

Mrs. Brown: This is a historical fiction... I think, at least I know it's based on history, however I don't know how accurate it is, anyway this movie is about Queen Victoria and how after Prince Albert died, she was coaxed out of grief by a servant whom her husband admired, as their friendship grows the Queens family etc. are scandalized.

O Brother Where Art Thou: I think I can safely say that this was unlike any other movie that I've ever seen before. The Odyssey meets the south in the 30s in this movie. I think the thing that interested me most was the setting of the south, the south is a place I've only been once and it seems to almost have a mythical quality about it. I don't know if I'd put it together before that while the north was modernized, the south was hanging back several decades. It's been a while since I've been forced to read the Odyssey so I don't know how well the two compare, there were a few main points like the cyclops and the sirens.