Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon

★★★★ Director: Sidney Lumet Year: 1975 It's incredible that I had never seen this classic. I'm sure casting was fun with Al Pacino and John Cazale together again. Love that it's based on ...

Burt’s Buzz

Burt’s Buzz

★★★ Director: Jody Shapiro Year: 2013 This was on sale on iTunes so I figured, why not. Didn't really know much about Burt's Bees. I don't even use ...

Life Itself

Life Itself

★★★★★ Director: Steve James Year: 2014 I think we all take for granted the impact and role models that Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel had in film making, ...

Noah

Noah

★★ Director: Darren Aronofsky Year: 2014 I had no desire to see this film but the fact that it's Aronofsky, made it onto my list. There's some great ...

Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Gal

★★★ Director: James Gunn Year: 2014 I'm sure I'm one of the few folks who didn't think this was the greatest Marvel film of all time. I still ...

Finding Vivian Maier

Finding Vivian Maier

★★★★★ Director: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel Year: 2013 What an absolutely amazing story. The documentarian finds all of these amazing negatives at a storage locker auction. Posts it to ...

Idiocracy

Idiocracy

★★ Director: Mike Judge Year: 2006 Not sure how I ever missed this. But since I've been loving Silicon Valley, someone suggested I check out this classic. And ...

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

The Amazing Spider-M

★★ Director: Marc Webb Year: 2014 It's just never as good as the first one. Whichever the first one was as this reboot is getting out of hand. ...

Bad Words

Bad Words

★★ Director: Jason Bateman Year: 2013 The trailer for this was awesome. And Rohan Chand definitely steals the film with his acting. But the story... it started out all great ...

Tale of Desperaux

Tale of Desperaux

★★★★★ Director: Sam Fell, Robert Stevenhagen Year: 2008 Wow, just plain wow. This is a gorgeous film. And not just for kids. It's stacked with talent: Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, Kevin ...

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters

★★★★ Director: Ivan Reitman Year: 1984 Such a classic. I still remember Harold Ramis speaking at my graduation and all of us yelling out Egon! > More Info

Wall-E

Wall-E

★★★★ Director: Andrew Stanton Year: 2008 The kids love watching this film over and over again. I remember when it came out in theaters, I thought it was okay. ...

Tim’s Vermeer

Tim’s Vermeer

★★★★ Director: Teller Year: 2013 One of those films that I saw on iTunes and figured why not. Somewhat heard of it, which is one man's obsession to ...

An American Tail

An American Tail

★★★★ Director: Don Bluth Year: 1986 A great kids film we somehow overlook. It's quite serious and love that it's about New York at the turn of the century. ...

The Huntresses

The Huntresses

★★★ Director: Jae-Hyun Park Year: 2014 This is what you get when you take a stereotypical Korean period drama and marry it with Charlie's Angels. But this Charlie ...

Divergent

Divergent

★★★ Director: Neil Burger Year: 2014 Another good plane movie. This is what happens when you mix the Hunger Games with Harry Potter's sorting hat. But I did ...

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Jack Ryan: Shadow Re

★★ Director:  Kenneth Branagh Year: 2014 There was nothing to watch on the plane except this one that felt like a half-way decent action film. Boy, was I ...

Ernest & Celestine

Ernest & Celest

★★★★★ Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner Year: 2012 I got this for the flight for the kids based on the solid reviews. Never read the kid's book and ...