I confess to being a movie junkie. It’s sometimes quite difficult for me to find a film that I have not already seen. I chide myself for spending so much time glued to a screen but I can’t help it. I am mesmerized by the worlds created by actors but these days I rarely see a picture at the theater. It’s just too easy to stay at home with a big bag of microwave popcorn tuned in to On Demand or Netflix or even TBS or HBO. I suppose it might be argued that one’s favorite flics say a great deal about who they are. If that’s the case a psychoanalyst would have a field day with me. So here in no particular order are some of my all time favorites:

• The entire Godfather series
• The entire Lord of the Rings series
• The entire Harry Potter series
• Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Muppets Christmas Carol
• Shawshank Redemption
• Seabiscuit
• 2001 A Space Odyssey
• Apocalypse Now
• Full Metal Jacket
• The Last Samurai
• The Elephant Man
• Love Actually
• Fiddler On the Roof
• Chicago
• A Chorus Line
• The Wizard of Oz
• Shane
• High Noon
• The Magnificent Seven
• Gone With the Wind
• Titanic
• Schindler’s List
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Blackhawk Down
• Going My Way
• Pulp Fiction
• Up
• Beauty and the Beast
• Toy Story
• Zero Dark Thirty
• The Young Lions
• Ladybird
• I, Tonya
• Dr. Strangelove
• 12 Angry Men
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The entire Dark Knight series
• Psycho
• Rear Window
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Singin in the Rain
• Vertigo
• Sunset Boulevard
• Forrest Gump
• Philadelphia
• The Sound of Music
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Chinatown
• Amadeus
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Jaws
• Braveheart
• Dances with Wolves
• Jurassic Park
• The Exorcist
• Rain Man
• Terms of Endearment
• Goodwill Hunting
• The Shining
• Inception
• The Usual Suspects
• Glengarry Glenross
• Alien
• Fargo
• American History X
• The Sixth Sense
• The Mothman Prophesies
• Sixteen Candles
• Pretty In Pink
• The Breakfast club
• Kill Bill Volume I
• The Color Purple
• Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
• The Princess Bride
• Inglorious Bastards
• The Color Purple
• Apollo 13
• The Right Stuff
• Finding Nemo
• North by Northwest
• Dead Poets Society
• Stand and Deliver
• Hooziers
• Signs
• Damien
• The Homecoming
• School of Rock
• Little Women
• The Crucible
• Life of Pi
• Primal Fear
• Munich
• The Shining
• Young Frankenstein
• When Harry Met Sally
• Sleepless in Seattle
• Steel Magnolias

So there you go. It’s certainly an eclectic lot and doesn’t include every single movie that I like, but you should be able to find something that you might enjoy. Heat up some popcorn, sit back and escape into another world.