Favorite Movies

Drama

• The Elephant Man (5 stars)
• Dead Poet’s Society (5 stars)
• Bella (5 stars)
• Amazing Grace (5 stars)
• Ghandi (5 stars)
• Hotel Rwanda (5 stars)
• In America (5 stars)
• The Kite Runner (5 stars)
• Radio (5 stars)
• Saving Private Ryan (5 stars)
• Whale Rider (5 stars)
• The Tree of Life (5 stars)
• The King’s Speech (4.5 stars)
• Get Low (4.5 stars)
• A Better Life (4.5 stars)
• The War (4.5 stars)
• The Straight Story (4 stars)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (4 stars)
• Amistad (4 stars)
• Awakenings (4 stars)
• A Raisin in the Sun (4 stars)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (4 stars)
• Cast Away (4 stars)
• Finding Forrester (4 stars)
• Ghosts of Mississippi (4 stars)
• Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (4 stars)
• Hoosiers (4 stars)
• Jeremiah Johnson (4 stars)
• John Adams HBO Series (4 stars)
• Patch Adams (4 stars)
• Peaceful Warrior (4 stars)
• Runaway Jury (4 stars)
• Searching for Bobby Fischer (4 stars)
• Stranger than Fiction (4 stars)
• The Soloist (4 stars)
• Sweet Land (4 stars)
• Slumdog Millionaire (4 stars)
• Fair Game (4 stars)
• Sarah’s Key (4 stars)
• The New World (4 stars)
• Like Dandelion Dust (4 stars)
• The Social Network (4 stars)
• The Power of One (3.5 stars)
• Chariots of Fire (3.5 stars)
• A Beautiful Mind (3.5 stars)
• Dances with Wolves (3.5 stars)
• The Man from Snowy River (3.5 stars)
• Roots (3.5 stars)
• The Visitor (3 stars)
• Rudy (3 stars)
• The Truman Show (3 stars)
• Pay it Forward (3 stars)
• Dan in Real Life (3 Stars)
• Jakob the Liar (3 stars)
• Freedom Writers (3 stars)
• A Civil Action (3 stars)
• Cool Hand Luke (3 stars)
• Beyond the Gates (3 stars)
• Akeelah and the Bees (3 stars)
• Cry Freedom (3 stars)
• Grace is Gone (3 stars)
• Shine (3 stars)
• Sometimes in April (3 stars)
• 7 Pounds (3 stars)
• What Dreams May Come (3 stars)
• Brother Sun, Sister Moon (3 stars)
• Rabbit-Proof Fence (3 stars)
• Return to Snowy River (3 stars)
• Lean On Me (3 stars)
• Days of Heaven (3 stars)
• Antwone Fisher (3 stars)

Foreign

• My Way (5 stars)
• In a Better World (5 stars)
• As It Is In Heaven (4 stars)
• August Evening (4 stars)
• Children of Heaven (4 stars)
• Joyeux Noel (4 stars)
• Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (4 stars)
• Under the Same Moon (4 stars)
• The Chorus (4 stars)
• I’ve Loved You So Long (4 stars)
• As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (4 stars)
• Life is Beautiful (3 stars)
• The Namesake (3 stars)

Documentary

• The Future of Food (5 stars)
• Ghosts of Rwanda (5 stars)
• Microcosmos (5 stars)
• The Privileged Planet (5 stars)
• Life (5 stars)
• The Garden (4.5 stars)
• Food, Inc. (4 stars)
• King Corn (4 stars)
• Food Matters (4 stars)
• Forks Over Knives (4 stars)
• Beyond Belief (4 stars)
• Born into Brothels (4 stars)
• The Business of Being Born (4 Stars)
• God Grew Tired of Us (4 stars)
• Emmanuel’s Gift (4 stars)
• Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary (4 stars)
• Paper Heart (4 stars)
• My Flesh & Blood (4 stars)
• Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (4 stars)
• Why We Fight (4 stars)
• The Human Experience (4 stars)
• Touching the Void (4 stars)
• Supersize Me (3.5 stars)
• March of the Penguins (3.5 stars)
• Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (3.5 stars)
• Hearts & Minds
• Beyond the Gates of Splendor (3 stars)
• Darfur Now (3 stars)
• Paper Clips (3 stars)
• Spellbound (3 stars)
• War Dance (3 stars)

Action

• The Last of the Mohicans (5 stars)
• Braveheart (5 stars)
• The Matrix (5 stars)
• Inception (5 stars)
• The Bourne Identity (5 stars)
• Sherlock Holmes (4.5 stars)
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (4.5 stars)
• Batman Begins (4.5 stars)
• The Brothers Bloom (4 stars)
• Avatar (4 stars)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (3.5 stars)

Classics

• Spartacus (5 stars)
• Ben-Hur (5 stars)
• Fiddler on the Roof (5 stars)
• Man of La Mancha (4 stars)

Family

• The Incredibles (5 stars)
• Up (5 stars)
• Kung Fu Panda (5 stars)
• Kung Fu Panda 2 (5 stars)
• Babe (5 stars)
• Babe: Pig in the City (5 stars)
• The Sound of Music (5 stars)
• The Black Stallion (5 stars)
• A Bug’s Life (4 stars)
• Despicable Me (4 stars)
• The Adventures of Tintin (3.5 stars)
• Remember the Titans (3.5 stars)
• Old Yeller (3 stars)

Comedy

• Brian Regan: I Walked on the Moon (5 stars)
• Brian Regan: The Epitome of Hyperbole (5 stars)
• Brian Regan: Standing Up (5 stars)
• Anjelah Johnson: That’s How We Do It (4.5 stars)

Television Series

• The West Wing (5 stars)
• Shark Tank (5 stars)
• Friday Night Lights (4.5 stars)
• Downtown Abbey (4.5 stars)
• Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (4.5 stars)
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (4 stars)