My Favorite Movies

Just brilliant. I was transported and creeped out to the core from the opening sequence all the way through this movie. I never stopped to think about the fact that I was "watching a zombie movie." I just believed every moment of it. Danny Boyle is my hero!

I cannot say enough about the frothy, frenetic, spectacle of booming entertainment that is this movie. Couldn't stop smiling while watching, I literally cheered for joy at points. The costumes, the music, the over-the-top characters, the DANCING make this one of my top-ten all time favourite movies. I cannot recommend it enthusiastically enough.

The only reason Whoopi got the Oscar for Ghost is because the Academy felt so embarrassed in retrospect after not giving it to her for this movie. Everybody should have won for this movie Steven, Margaret, Oprah too. Yep, I liked it a lot. Holds my all-time record for number of times a movie has made me cry. Ahh, sweet sentimentality, come to Papa.

The rare movie that leaves you elated without getting sappy. Cleverly and lovingly satirizes the dysfunction of flawed, eclectic characters caring for each other the only way they know how. Awesome cast. Toni Collette is one of the best actresses out there.

Each character is hysterically unredeemable, and we root for them because of, not in spite of this. A harsh high school vision which pulls no punches and precociously takes dark comedy into new territory. Moments of intense entertainment ensue.

Tender moments of melancholy are scattered among this bleak story of desperate young people falling in love and the danger of drugs. Matt Dillon gives us one of his most memorable and charismatic turns. What the hell ever happened to Kelly Lynch anyway?

The mother of all unsettling, time-folding-into-itself resolution endings. Barrymore, who is credited as producer, shows her limited range in a bit part surrounded by superior performances. The elusive adolescent drudgery and yearning to be adult is lovingly articulated.

A nearly perfect example of irresistible all-ages pop-culture guilty pleasure. You will fall in love with this family the moment you step into their highly stylized and lovingly rendered world. As a movie fan, a comic book fan, science fiction fan and animation fan, this film became an instant all-time top-ten list placer for me.

Another impressive example of how to properly bring a beautiful novel to the screen. A-level performances are all the rage in this sweeping, age-spanning journey through the connecting lives of three spellbinding women. Intensely moving and intelligent, highly recommended.

Hints of the Twin Peaks to come lay throughout this enthralling and disturbing Lynch film that influenced countless others. Dennis Hopper commands your attention in a role perfectly suited, his over-the-top paranoid ego on display. Rossellini is somehow perfect as a mysterious lounge singer, even though she can't sing. MacLachlan's cherubic curiosity grounds you, making you care about his twisted, perverted journey. Lynch in full-fledged awkward-timing and unconventional-method mode.

I found this movie delightfully inspiring and romantic. It's one of the most beautiful films to watch, period. You cannot take your eyes off Deneuve.

Refreshingly unsettling. If you struggle with claustrophobia, this movie won't help. A perfectly paced scary adventure with a fresh premise and creepy looking bad guys. Will have you grasping for something to squeeze from scene to scene.

Delightfully cynical and an equal-opportunity satirist, Heathers was ahead of its time with shades of Clueless, Mean Girls and Election to come. Parts of it don't hold up too well, but there's no denying it's a great movie that helped define a genre.

Successfully recreates the creepy, post-apocolyptic realism of the first movie, which was brilliant, and works at sustaining the tension and zombie one-upmanship of recent movies in the genre.

I'm such a sucker for a really good post-apocalyptic what-if story. Some moments were like watching a time traveling reality show of the future. It's bleak but so intense. I really felt transported.

Clearly embracing the allegory between mutants and any oppressed minority, Singer forges ahead skillfully with a sequel that takes the best of the original and improves upon it. The special effects are only meant to heighten an already delicately woven history of surprisingly layered characters in larger-than-life circumstances. One of the best comic-book movies ever made.

What a trip. So haunting and dense, so bursting with emotion and surrealism. There are moments of extreme violence that are difficult to watch, but this movie takes you all the way from one fantastical extreme to the other and lavishes the viewer with intricately crafted realism for the entire journey.

Following two unhinged, deluded shut-in women around a dilapidated mansion via documentary cameras in 1975, you're not sure whether to laugh, cry or cringe. One thing's for sure: you cannot stop watching. Little Edie reminds us all that your life is only as glamorous as you believe it to be. Their story, full of burden, longing and regret, is heartbreaking.

David Lynch brings his particularly small-town sense of dreamy dread to a Hollywood love story between two beautiful actresses. The result is one of the best dream-sequence/alternate-reality suspense adventures you're likely to find on film. Naomi Watts and Laura Harring are mesmerizing.

Instant classic. Watched it twice in one sitting. Love it.