Suzanne Blazier: A Movie for Every Mood

Next in my drawer is a movie from 1997, The Saint . I don’t recall exactly how I acquired the DVD, but it is a favorite of mine. I...

Another DVD in my drawer was Runaway Bride, pairing Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in a romantic comedy again, nine years after...

A friend gave me this DVD of a British film, Brighton Rock . I don’t recall why she thought I might like it. It is a period piece, taking p...

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) is one of my favorite films, and a DVD I purchased. I never saw the original 1968 film starring S...

The DVD Chicago came to me from my husband’s mother, Dolores. After I watched this flashy musical at home the other night (I’d al...

Like Water for Chocolate ( Como agua para chocolate ) is a delightful film from 1992. Watching it is a wonderful way to spend an...

I opened the drawer that has some games and DVDs stored in it, and wondered how we collected all of them. I am acquainted with people who bu...

Jen Senko is a documentary filmmaker who watched her tolerant and loving father turn into a bigoted, angry person beginning in the...

The very funny Swedish adventure/comedy film, The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared , is well worth your...

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is a film by Guy Ritchie. It is rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, some suggesti...

Learning to Drive is a romantic comedy with dramatic overtones that takes place in Manhattan. A new divorcee, Wendy (Patricia Cl...

I’m a big fan of the film Independence Day that was released in 1996. The perfect cast starred in this apocalyptic kind of tale w...

Bad Education ( La Mala Educaci ó n ) is a film by Pedro Almod ó var, Spanish writer and director. It stars Gael Garc...

Rachel Weisz is My Cousin Rachel in this adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1951 novel of the same name. I became enamored of Ms. ...

My favorite uncle took my two younger sisters and me to the theater to see Mary Poppins when it first came out in 1964. It made a...

I remember watching Diane Lane for the first time in A Little Romance when she was only 13 years old. I’ve been a fan of hers eve...

The Blue Bird has got to be one of the strangest movies I have ever seen. Starring Shirley Temple, the film was released in 1940...

My husband had never seen the movie Mary Poppins . His favorite movie from childhood is The Wizard of Oz , so we made a deal to w...

Café Society is a classic Woody Allen offering. Taking place in the 1930’s in Hollywood and in New York City, he used the old jazz tunes h...

The French film Cezanne et Moi recalls the friendship of artist Paul Cezanne, and writer Emile Zola. The film is rated R for language, se...