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.

Wives and Daughters: This is technically a mini serise but I'm going to count it anyways. Wives and Daughters is based off a book by the same name by Elizabeth Gaskill. I think they were pretty true to the book, edits here and there but I love both the movie and the book. One really nice thing about the movie is that there's an ending, Elizabeth Gaskill sadly died before she wrote the ending of the book. I really think that they did a great job with this movie, in picking out the characters and telling the story and everything like that, this is a movie that I enjoy watching time after time.

Shop Around The Corner: I'd heard about this movie and I saw it at the library and so I thought I'd try it, I wasn't expecting much but I was quite pleasantly surprised. This movie includes a fun cast of characters and I think that's probably why I like it so much, I find movies can be much more entertaining if there's a great cast of supporting characters in addition to the main characters. The setting for this plot is a leather goods shop in Budapest during some kind of economic depression. According to the blurb on the back of the case You've Got Mail was a re-make of this movie. It's a sweet if perhaps sappy plot but Jimmy Stewart is always great.

Annie: This was a movie I loved when I was little and I thought I'd see if it was still as good as it was then; it was still pretty good but not as good as when I was little but so many things showed up this time that were over my head when I was little. Carol Burnett is really good in this movie, Bernadette Peters is a pretty typical casting, no real singing though. It's a look back at life in the 30s.

Sabrina: This isn't a repeat, it's the remake of the one with Audrey Hepburn, this one was made in the 90s. This version of Sabrina, for me at least, doesn't have the charm of the original, it feels a tad adulterated, however it is still a good movie and it's very funny with lots of memorable lines.

Wait Until Dark: Do not watch this movie home alone in the dark, you will regret it. This movie I suppose might be called more of a thriller but I find it terrifying. I think far more frightening that the disturbing things that people can think up, are the things that are actually really quite possible. Audrey Hepburn's character is recently blinded and adjusting to life when she unwittingly becomes involved with drug dealers and murderers.

Anastasia: This is not the more recent cartoon (though I love that). I've been interested in Anastasia since I read a book about her, with pictures from her life, anyway this movie was a version with Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner, the plot of the movie is similar to that of the cartoon, however the Rasputin aspect isn't there. It was a nice movie, I liked it.

The Paycheck: This is a pretty good action movie, not the best but pretty good. I hadn't noticed it when watching but in some of the extended stuff on the DVD they were talking about how they had been inspired by Hitchcock, especially North by Northwest and I saw what they meant, I just wouldn't have been able to put my finger on it otherwise. The plot of this movie is akin to that of Minority Report if you've seen that, I think I enjoyed this movie far more though. I liked the concept of the movie, it was unusual.

Spellbound: Alfred Hitchcock made simply amazing movies, he was a master of his art and I don't know that anyone, even today, does thriller movies like he did. In this movie Ingrid Bergman is a psychiatrist or psychoanalyst, I don't recall witch, she meets and falls in love with Gregory Peck's character only to find that he is not who he seemed to be and that he's accused of murder. Peck's character has amnesia and a guilt complex and Ingrid Bergman is determined to cure him and prove his innocence. It's a fascinating movie.
Murder on the Orient Express: I've never read the book by Agatha Christie but this movie is a wonderful whodunit, drama, comedy, emotion and intriguing. It's wonderful, simply wonderful and part of that is that there are so many wonderful actors in the movie; Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, and so many more.I highly recommend it.

Breakfast at Tiffany's: I hate the song but I love this movie. I'm a big fan of Audrey Hepburn and this movie is one of my favorites. Audrey Hepburn and George Pepard are wonderful in this movie.

Adam's Rib: This is a funny movie, but more than that it's a movie about laws and equality, specificly equality between women and men. Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy play a married couple of lawyers who find themselves testing their relationship when they go against each other in court. I think this must have been quite a monumental movie, such issues were not common place then as they are today. I still don't know how to take this movie, there are many blows forged for women's equality, but it almost feels bitter sweet, I could just not be seeing, but it feels like the dominant male sentiment of the day, has the last laugh in the end.

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: This was a movie that I'd wanted to see at international cinema but missed, I wasn't quite sure what to expect but the preview I saw must have looked cool or something. This movie is French and half chick flick, half horror movie, I felt a lot safer in the world before watching this movie. The way the story is portrayed is not done in the traditional sense but from two different sides, first we see the story from the girl's point of view, then from the guys and the difference in their point of views is quite a shock. This isn't a movie that I ever want to see again, in fact I'm wishing that I hadn't seen it because it really creeped me out.

The Bourne Ultimatum: I am a fan of the whole trilogy and I think this might be the coolest of them all. These movies are flawless and each one ups the ante. In this movie Bourne finally makes it back to his beginning and seems to have gotten away from the CIA once and for all...unless there's another movie that I haven't heard about.
Sabrina: There are two versions of this movie, the original with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart and the newer one with Harrison Ford and Juila O.... I forget, at any rate, I am talking about the original. I love this movie, it's a charming Cinderella story with very witty humor. This is the movie where Hepburn and Givinchy got together. I like both versions of this movie but this version is my favorite, I find Bogie more believable as Linus Larabee, William Holden more charming and of course how could anyone out do Audrey Hepburn?