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!   

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

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

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

What to read if you like Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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Infographic- What to read if you like A Discovery of Witches

This is my very first infographic sort of thing. 
It is not perfect. 
It is a start. 
Let me know what books
you would like to see used
for something like this.                                                                                                                               
Click on the image
to see the whole thing.

More Movies from Melissa

 Melissa's Movie Expertise: Check these out!

Do you have some time off next week- time to watch movies? Here are some titles worth borrowing.

 Dark Comedies 

Off color stories that will make you laugh 

 1) Death at a funeral
2) Heathers
3) Arsenic and old lace
4) Choke
5) Death becomes her
6) Better off dead
7) Novocaine
8) I love you to death
9) Operation Endgame
10) Bernie

 Romance with a twist 

 Looking for a romantic movie that is not rehashed ideas and predictable story lines? 

Then try these:

1) Harold and Maude
2) The Lake house
3) I love you Phillip Morris
4) 50 First Dates
5) Punch drunk love
6) Secretary
7) Wristcutters
8) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 

Unconventional Heroes

Here are some great anti-hero films:

1) Super
2) Kick-Ass
3) Defendor
4) Hellboy
5) Special
6) Unbreakable
7) Sin City
8) The Watchmen
9) Blade