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.

Engagingly theatrical feature has some wonderful characters and sparkling tunes.