Movie Recommendations

Once again, Richard Lester shot both movies simultaneously; Superman II is actually a better film, with villains who are really evil and a culmination of the Superman-Lois romance.

First-rate Chaplin opus typically combines great comic bits with overly sentimental (maudlin?) ones; one of The Tramp’s three best films (with The Gold Rush and Modern Times).

Landmark production from spaghetti western director Sergio Leone features Henry Fonda playing against type as a rotten killer.

Spooky tale of alien pods from outer space growing replicant yet soulless humans. May leave you scared to go to sleep.

Illegal immigrants—one with a mysterious past—navigate the hazards of London’s unseen underbelly. People come to hotels at night to do dirty things. It is our job to make them look pretty.

The letter announces that their friend and sometime rival has run off with one of their husbands… but doesn’t say which. Stranded on a daylong boat ride, the wives replay their marriages and wonder who has been abandoned.

James Cagney won an Oscar for his portrayal of Broadway song-and-dance man George M. Cohan.

Solid adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow) is a would-be matchmaker with all the wrong instincts.

Classic Hitchcock stars Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave as sparring travelers seeking a fellow passenger who may have disappeared.

Confined to a wheelchair in his high-rise, Jimmy Stewart begins to believe a neighbor is a wife-murderer. Glamorous girlfriend Grace Kelly aids his investigation in this Hitchcock masterpiece.