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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Falling for Movies

Mel's Movie Recommendations for September

Weird and Original
1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Donnie Darko
3. Brazil
4. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
5. Dogville
6. Blue Velvet
7. Men Who Stare at Goats
8. Skin I Live In
9. Secretary



Break-up Blues
1. Forgetting Sara Marshall
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Wedding Singer
4. Closer
5. Sliding Doors
6. The Holiday
7. French Kiss
8. Hope Springs



Dangerous Space
1. Sunshine
2. Iron Sky
3. Prometheus
4. Dune
5. Predators
6. Alien Resurrection
7. Sphere

Monday, August 5, 2013

Melissa’s August Movie Endorsements

Melissa’s August Movie Endorsements






Under the Weather
Twister
Perfect Storm
Day after Tomorrow
Hereafter
Impossible








Infectious Epidemics
Contagion
Blindness
Omega Man
Perfect Sense
Quarantine
Crazies
28 Days later
The Happening


Childhood FAVORITES
Brave Little Toaster
Aladdin
Secret of NIMH
Black Cauldron
Great Muppet Caper
Homeward Bound - The Incredible Journey
American Tale
Willow
 FernGully: The Last Rainforest 
                        Addams Family

Monday, July 22, 2013

Mel's Movies: The Cure for a Hot July Day

Movies: The cure for a hot July day



 

The Art of Writing
1. Rum Diaries
2. Adaptation
3. Seven Psychopaths
4. Secret Window
5. Factotum
6. Scoop




Dysfunctional Families
1. Stoker
2. Royal Tenenbaums
3. Carnage
4. Squid and the Whale
5. Fireflies in the Garden
6. The Guilt Trip
7. Curse of the Golden Flower
8. Death at a Funeral 



Just For Animal Lovers
1. Adventures of Milo and Otis
2. March of the Penguins
3. Free Willy
4. Charlotte's Web
5. Snakes on a Plane
6. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
7. Best in Show
8. Gorillas in the Mist
9. Chicken Run
                                 10. Rio

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!