My Favorite Movies & TV

I tend to like uplifting movies and TV shows that have a positive
message or show people overcoming great odds. I also enjoy
authentic human emotion, so yes, I like reality TV. And if you’re one
of those reality TV snobs, I’d just like to point out that ALL SPORTS
are reality TV (well, except pro wrestling). ‘Nuf said?

Most of my film favorites fall into the genres of science fiction, romantic comedies, classics, Christmas, and musicals. I’m really not a horror story fan. I think there’s too much real horror in the world to get a kick out of pretend, sanitized horror. Links take you to the Amazon.com page where you can read reviews, and in some cases, see clips.

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King)

Star Wars Episode IV – original theatrical version

The Fifth Element

The Princess Bride

Flash Gordon (the 1980 kinky spandex version)

Serenity

Hellboy (I & II)

Apollo 13 (actually, any Tom Hanks movie)

Dark City (I love it…but it hurts my brain)

Gattica

The Matrix

Firefly – The Complete Series (the brilliant TV series by Joss Whedon)

Mystery

Science Theater 3000 (MST3K)

Torchwood

Doctor Who

24

Futurama

Battlestar Galactica

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek – Original Series

Star Trek: The Next Generation

X-Files

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Angel

Twin Peaks

Love & Laughs (Romance, Comedies & Feel-Good Flicks)

Under the Tuscan Sun

Sense and Sensibility

Emma (I’m a sucker for Jane Austen)

Calendar Girls

Phenomenon (one of my favorite movies of all time, but it breaks my heart)

Rob Roy

Last of the Mohicans

The Patriot

A Midwinter’s Tale (hysterical comedy by Kenneth Branagh about a band of unemployed actors mounting a production of Hamlet)

Monty Python (any MP movie)

Chocolat

Love, Actually

The Cheap Detective

Blazing Saddles

Never Been Kissed

Notting Hill

Gone With The Wind

Nicholas Nickleby

That Thing You Do

Classics (just a tiny partial list…more to come)

To Have And Have Not

Gone with the Wind

Casablanca

So Proudly We Hail

North by Northwest

Notorious

An Affair to Remember

The Philadelphia Story

His Girl Friday

Musicals and Dance

The Sound of Music

Sweeney Todd (the original Broadway version)

Moulin Rouge

Singin’ In The Rain

1776

Easter Parade

The Music Man

Hair

Meet Me In St. Louis

The Court Jester (Danny Kaye was my first crush)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Top Hat (Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers)

Swing Time (Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers)

Shall We Dance (Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers)

Dance With Me

Shall We Dance (Japanese Version)

Xanadu (please don’t laugh)

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

Fame

Little Shop of Horrors

Christmas Movies & TV

It’s A Wonderful Life (pretty much my favorite film of all time)

Christmas in Connecticut

White Christmas (also a great musical)

Miracle on 34th Street (original version)

White Christmas

Elf

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas

Action Flicks

The Long Kiss Goodnight

Die Hard

Casino Royale (possibly the best James Bond flick ever)

TV Shows

Dancing With The Stars (yes, I can hear you groaning)

Top Gear

Ninja Warrior

Top Chef

Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares

Dinner: Impossible

Frontier House

Victorian House

Manor House

Colonial House

Cosmos

The Daily Show

The Colbert Report

The Story of English

The Muppet Show

Peewee’s Playhouse (a classic)

Danger: UXB

Sense and Sensibility (the A&E miniseries)

Mystery

Nova

Secrets of the Dead

Antiques Roadshow

Many more to come as I have time to update this page…