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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Dig Mel's June Movies



Dig into Movies


1. Tremors
2. Little Shop of Horrors
3. Indiana Jones and the Temple of DOOM
4. Descent
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1. Fantastic Mr. Fox
2. Holes
3. Frankenweenie
4. Secret Garden
5. The Great Escape
6. National Treasure
7. Bugs life




Movies based on books
(Part 2)

1. The Omega Man
2. Warm bodies
3. Misery

4. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. Being Julia
6. Choke
7. Planet of the Apes (1967)

8. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
9. Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
10. Bourne identity









Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Mel's Marvelous May Movie Recommendations


                         Movie in the spotlight!

 Black Dynamite
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True Life Sagas
1. Charlie Wilson's War2. Domino
3. Man on the Moon
4. Alive
5. Notorious Bettie Page
6. Basketball Diaries
7. The Informant!
8. Defiance
9. Kinsey
10. A Dangerous Method





Hail to El Presidente
1. American President
2. Air Force One
3. My Fellow Americans
4. In the Line of Fire
5. Frost/Nixon





The Humorous World of Sports
1. Happy Gilmore
2. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
3. Blades of Glory
4. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
5. Mighty Ducks

Friday, April 5, 2013

Mel's Awe-Inspiring Film Extravaganza


 Watch Out! Dystopian Future
1. Gattaca

2. In Time

3. Clockwork Orange

4. Idiocracy

5. DREDD

6. Metropolis (1927)

7. Children of Men

8. Surrogates

9. The Island (2005)


Sailing The Seas

1. African Queen

2. Waterworld

3. Overboard

4. Lifeboat

5. 50 First Dates

6.Operation Petticoat

7.Captain Ron

I Do I Do Love Weddings

1. Wedding Singer

2. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

3. The Proposal

4. Father Of The Bride

5. Wedding Crashers

Friday, March 15, 2013

Mel's Movies: Ideas for the Ides (of March)

Nice weather isn't here quite yet. Are you staying inside to watch movies? Here are Mel's recommendations for March.
 
Growing up is hard to do
1. Battle Royal

2. Better Off Dead

3. Carrie

4. Accepted

5. Mean Girls

Blue And Proud! (Police movies)
1. Seven
2. 21 Jump Street
3. Fargo
4. Traffic
5. Super Troopers
6. Magnum Force
7. S.W.A.T.
8. Hot Fuzz
 
Get Addicted To These TV Shows
1. Dexter
2. In Treatment
3. Mad Men
4. Flight of the Conchords
5. Bored to Death
6. Deadwood
7. Downton Abbey
8. Sherlock (BBC TV show)
 
P.S. The Ides of March, with Ryan Gosling and George Clooney, is also a good choice!   


Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Mel's Movies: More than Romance

 
February Is Not Only For Love!
 
Maybe you're not in a romantic mood this month. See Mel's suggestions for non-love-story-movies. But if you change your mind, she's got you covered.

Are they  Insane ?

Memento

What about Bob

Fight Club

12 Monkeys

Donnie Darko

Harvey

Perfect Host

Black Swan

K-PAX


Aliens- our Friends or Foes

Friend-

The Iron Giant

Escape to Witch Mountain

E.T

Superman
 
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Foe-

Battle: Los Angeles

Flash Gordon

Mars Attacks

Fourth kind

Cowboys and aliens

Signs

In the mood for love?

1. Punch drunk love

2. Shopgirl

3. P.S.

4. Before Sunrise (first)/ Before Sunset (sequel)

5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

6. P.S. I Love You

7. Benny & Joon

8. Nick and Norah's infinite playlist

9. True Romance

10. Brokeback Mountain

Friday, January 4, 2013

Mel's rejuvenation cure for the January blues

Need a pick up for the post-holiday letdown? Try one of Mel's recommended movies.

I Am Woman Hear Me Roar!

1. Memoirs of a Geisha
2. Persepolis
3. Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2
4. Bringing Up Baby
5. Auntie Mame
6. Jackie Brown
7. Fifth Element
8. Run Lola Run
9. Brave

Books Adapted into Movies (Part One) 

1. The Never Ending Story
2. The Ruins
3. Requiem for a Dream
4. What Dreams May Come
5. Trainspotting
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7. The Painted Veil
8. Rum Diary
9. Brokeback Mountain




Wonderful Documentaries

1. For the Bible Tells Me So
2. Super Size Me
3. King of Kong
4. Wordplay
5. Deliver Us from Evil
6. Murderball
7. Frozen Planet
8. Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Friday, November 30, 2012

Melissa's December Movie Picks


Robberies and heists

1) Fun with Dick and Jane
2) Inside Man
3) Snatch
4) The Lookout
5) Matchstick Men
6) 30 Minutes Or Less
7) Oceans Eleven
8) Henry's Crime
9) The Town
10) Italian Job



You don’t have to time travel to enjoy these movies

1) Time Travelers Wife
2) Midnight in Paris
3) Idocracy
4) Source Code
5) Hot Tub Time Machine
6) The Jacket
7) Last Mimsy
8) Somewhere in Time
9) Lake House
10) Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home



Christmas Movies You May Have Missed

10) White Christmas
9) Die Hard
8) Four Christmases
7) Nightmare Before Christmas
6) Trapped in Paradise
5) Gremlins
4) The Ice Harvest
3) Home Alone
2) Batman Returns
1) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang