The world has long celebrated classic movie quotes. The combination of a brilliantly conceived phrase and the perfectly calibrated delivery of that phrase has the potential to fuse itself to our hearts and minds forever. In fact, the American Film Institute released a list in 2005 of the 100 Greatest…

April 27 — May 3 Jerry Maguire Available on Netflix Rating: R Director: Cameron Crowe Starring: Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Regina King, Jonathan Lipnicki

The Little Prince Available on Netflix Rating: PG Director: Mark Osborne Starring: the voices of Jeff Bridges, Mackenzie Foy, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard

When I was around 12 years old, I watched George Roy Hill’s classic film The Sting for the first time. I had never seen a “con man” movie before that day. The flat-out entertainment value was astounding. The Sting basically laid the template for all con man movies that followed…

Our lives are made up of a myriad of moments, like an emotional mosaic. Many of those moments are completely forgotten minutes after they pass. I have thousands of days from my life that I can recall literally nothing about. …

Most of the time, when writers make lists about “Thanksgiving movies,” they round up the movies that take place on Thanksgiving or are about something relevant to Thanksgiving: Home for the Holidays, The Family Stone, Free Birds, Pieces of April, etc. Those lists are good and I have read many…

Grade: B- Emma Thompson won an Academy Award in the mid-90s for adapting Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility for the big screen. Since then, she has not done a lot of screenwriting, but has dabbled in it, writing the scripts for the Nanny McPhee movies and the Bridget Jones sequel…

It seems that I rarely have the time to watch the TV shows and movies I want to anymore. Life, though always busy, has seemed particularly hectic for the last few months. Luckily, one of my favorite pastimes is to put movies on while I am doing work or planning…