Shall We Dansu?: This is a Japanese movie, if you've ever seen the movie Shall We Dance? it's a remake of this one. This movie is about a Japanese man who takes up ballroom dancing (I don't know if this still holds true but when this movie was made, ballroom dancing was a social taboo.) It's a sweet and funny movie. I absolutly love it.

Good Night and Good Luck: This movie is about events that took place during the dark time of McCarthyism and communist witch hunts. Edward R. Murrow was a well known journalist and he had a tv news show called See It Now. For those who don't know about this period, it was the cold war and an insane period in history, the US was deathly afraid of communism and Senator Joseph McCarthy was in charge of a committee on un-American activity, basically accusing people of being communists. Most of the people that were accused were not communists and were accused and convicted with insubstantial evidence. People were terrified of the chance that they could be called up before the committee, carrears were ended or damaged at the suggestion that a person was "red". Anyway Edward R. Murrow and his team had the guts to stand up to Senator McCarthy and the injustice of what was going on, this movie tells that story. I think this is a very inspiring story.

Some Like It Hot: I love this movie, love it! To musicians witness a fictionalization of the St. Valentines Day massacre and to make it out of town alive they go into disguise and join a girls band headed for Florida. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are hilarious in this movie as they see what life is like for the other half. Marylin Monroe makes it hard for the guys to remember that they're supposed to be girls with humorous results.

Il Postino (The Postman): This is an Italian movie that I love, my second favorite Italian movie after Life is Beautiful (Vita e Bella). This movie is about an island postman who becomes friends with the famous poet Pablo Neruda and from him learns about poetry, love and the beauty that surrounds him in his island home. I highly recomend it, it's very heart warming.

The Magnificent Seven: This movie was inspired by the Japanese movie The Seven Samurai, which I haven't seen but hope to see. I may have said this before but I'm not a huge fan of westerns, this however felt more like an action movie and I know that westerns technically fall into that category, I mean an action movie today. The movie has a star studded cast Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, other famous people who's names I don't remember but who's faces you'd recognize... America is a funny place and kind of awesome too, in America a Mongolian can be a cowboy and a German can be a Mexican.

Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb: Yes that really is the whole title of the movie. This is a black satire about the cold war. Peter Sellers stars in not one but three roles, it was originally going to be four but I think that'd probably be too much for anyone. An unauthorized air strike against the Russians has been set into action and seems impossible to stop, worse than that the Russians have a doomsday machine that will destroy everything on the earth if the Russians attack. A darkly comedic look at a infamous era in history with such memorable lines as "Gentlemen please, no fighting in the war room!" and a creepy German, Dr. Strangelove himself.

Into The Woods: Technically this is a play, however I've only ever seen this version which they recorded for video. Bernadette Peters is in this cast and Chip Zeins (that could be wrong). I quite enjoy this play, it's a bit of a satire on a bunch of fairy tales: Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, etc. This show is incredibly funny, fairly sad, and makes you stop and think about moral issues. It's quite a show.

Up: I loved this movie, it was the best Pixar movie that I've seen to date, it's sweet and laugh out loud funny. If you haven't seen it, you totally should!

Mostly Martha: This is a German movie about food, family and love. I really liked this movie, especially the fact that one of the characters was Italian and thus spoke in Italian some of the time...I doubt that will be an attraction for most people so I will just say that it's a nice romantic movie.

No Reservations: Okay so this is the American version of Mostly Martha so in contrasting and comparing these movies, I think on the whole No Reservations stayed fairly true to Mostly Martha, however it was Americanized, it's happier, and a bit more cheesy, it feels like Catherine Zeta-Jones is going through the motions of the character but she's also still playing Catherine Zeta-Jones, if that makes sense at all. I think I slightly lean towards Mostly Martha as my favorite of the two, it seemed a lot more sincere and real, not so contrived. I did appreciate things that seemed to be explained a little bit better in No Reservations. Both movies are pretty good but like I said, I lean towards Mostly Martha.

The Bourne Supremacy: The Bourne saga goes on, with more treachery, more amazing fights, more outwitting the bad guys and more insane car chases. This is the last of the books that I actually read, the books are rather hard to read and the movies really more make up their own plot and just use the character and title. I'm a fan of Bourne, this isn't my favorite of the movies but they're all well done and quite impressive.

Charlie's Angels: This movie has absolutly no redeaming value

Strictly Ballroom: This movie tells a story that has been told many times before, rebel guy, homely girl who come together to do something amazing and in the process the girl becomes beautiful and the two fall in love. It's been done many times before, but I still quite enjoyed this movie and I love dancing movies.

Marilyn Hodgkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School: This was an interesting movie, I'm still not quite sure what to think about it. It's very different from most movies I've seen, I'm pretty sure the essential story isn't one that's all that original but the movie itself is quite unique I think. I like it and I don't. I don't believe I'll be going back to this movie over and over again.

Dark Passage: Bogie and Bacall in a film noir type romance. This movie is interesting, I think it was sort of experimental. For most of the movie you don't see Bogie's face, the camera angle is as if you're seeing what his character is, kinda cool, kinda weird. This movie is noir, but it's not really dark on the whole, at least I didn't think so, but I guess I also haven't seen much noir lately either. Anyway, I like this movie and recommend it.

The Great Race: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, in a crazy, melodramatic, suffragette, race around the world. This movie is silly, and funny and quite frankly it's over the top. I liked it but I don't know that it's one I'd go back too. Jack Lemmon was quite amazing though, I think his performance was probably the best. This movie made me want to watch Some Like It Hot, I liked that movie better.

Bride and Prejudice: Jane Austin meets Bollywood. I think that pretty much sums this movie up because once you've said that what else is there to say? However, just to let you know I was pretty skeptical about this movie before I saw it but I fell in love with it, it's utterly wonderful, you really should see it.

The Nightmare Before Christmas: So Tim Burton is really weird, I think that could be universally agreed on, however sometimes his weirdness is also pretty cool. Of his movies I think that Nightmare's my favorite, I love the music and Jack Skellington.

As You Like It: I am a fan of Shakespeare and I am a very big fan of Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare movies and this is one of them. As You Like it is an enjoyable comedy but it is brought to it's best set in 19th century Japan. I never would have thought of a Shakespeare play in such a setting but Branagh makes it simply beautiful. I heartily recommend it.

Sydney White: A silly retelling of Snow White, this time it's Sydney White and the seven dorks. It's a fun and far fetched movie, I watched it with a roomie and we had a great time seeing it, it's one of those movies.

Miss Potter: This movie is about the life of Beatrix Potter, as I know very little about her I could not tell you as to how accurate it is but I found it a very charming story. I had no idea... well quite frankly all I knew about Beatrix Potter was that she wrote those stories, the ones about Peter Rabbit and all those other animals; I didn't realize that it might be though improper for a woman to be writing and illustrating her own stories. I also wasn't aware that she bought large amounts of land in the Lake District which she donated for preservation and I think that was a very wonderful thing to do. I found this movie rather inspirational it makes me want to do more, be better, do something really great.

Becoming Jane: I was curious, I admit it, despite hearing poor opinions of it; I think sometimes you still just to see something that you've heard was bad in order to confirm it for yourself. It's not wonderful, it's not terrible, it's just kind of blah, and frankly I don't know that I buy it. I think it's sort of funny, avid Austin fans would have this be another one of her stories with a lovely happy ending, but it cannot be, Jane Austin died young (well relatively) and she was unmarried; to a man she loved or any one else. Rather ironic isn't it?

For Whom The Bell Tolls: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman in a story about the Spanish Revolution by Hemingway. Yes Hemingway, bingo, interesting plot about the underdogs and an unhappy ending...ish.

Captain Horatio Hornblower: Before there was Piarates of the Carabean, there was Captain Horatio Hornbolower of the Royal Navy...I think that's what it's called. Anyway this movie takes place durring one of the Napolionic wars and Captain Hornblower is pretty much a sailors super hero and so who else could play that but Gregory Peck, it's a fair movie, nothing spectacular but not the worst you could do either.

Footloose: This movie is pretty awesome, Kevin Bacon, the 80s, dancing, Kenny Loggins, what more could you ask, except for an impromptu dance party after watching.

Atlantis: I thought this movie was soo cool when it first came out, and now, I still think it's a pretty awesome movie, it's fun to think about those sort of mysterious things, could there really still be an Atlantis out there? Probably not, but that doesn't mean that you can't still make a movie about it.

Soylent Green: If you enjoy the occasional Charlton Heston - Armageddon movie, then you should see Soylent Green, the world in 2022...11 years from now. I think over all I prefer the unintended humor of Planet of the Apes to Soylent Green's unintentional humor but it's still pretty good. I was first introduced to this movie by some friends...I think it might have been for St. Pactrick's day? perhaps not, however we did eat green food.