Movie Recommendations

I might just give Aliens (1986) an A for an excellent job raising the stakes while injecting some tension-breaking humor. Both deliver nail-biting human vs. monster battles. I didn’t like Alien3 and skipped Alien Resurrection entirely.

Errol Flynn in fine swashbuckling form as wrongly imprisoned Dr. Peter Blood, who commands his fellow convicts when they take over their galley ship.

It’s nearly impossible to resist the charms of this story of intergalactic friendship. Just enjoy.

Fun-loving Cary Grant is engaged to a business-minded heiress, but begins to suspect that black-sheep-sister Katharine Hepburn might be the better catch.

When a police crackdown fails to nab a serial childkiller, the criminal element begins its own search. Years ahead of its time, M raises questions of responsibility and justice that remain unanswered today. (subtitled)

Ryan O’Neal is a traveling con man saddled with a young girl (Tatum O’Neal) who may or may not be his daughter.

Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan are bickering co-workers and anonymous pen pals looking for love.

Hysterical pseudo-documentary about fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap. This film actually rates an 11.

George Lucas captures the summer of 1962 in California with this tale of graduating high schoolers.