There was a time when the kids were little and we were broke that our weekly “date” consisted of tucking the kids into bed then heading downstairs with a bottle of wine, a few candles and a stack of rented movies… We were quite up to date on the latest flicks back then!

Fast forward—-> a dozen or so years, six grueling years of  Saturday nights writing college papers, a husband working 3rd shift, then  a couple of party years behind us, and we’ve come full circle once again….back to spending quiet nights at home watching movies…  We’ve got lots of catching up to do!

My favorite movies are dramas (especially if I’ve read the book!!), chick-flicks,  historical epics, and suspense  but I’ll watch just about anything except horror flicks…

(Much like the books I’ve read, I need to start keeping a list to keep track of all of those titles… so I’ll just add in the new ones as I go along…  Of course I won’t count those classics that we watch OVER and OVER again that we’ve already seen.. Current repeat favorite: Phantom of the Opera, or any of those movies that we catch flipping through the channels that we stop and watch even though we’ve seen them a dozen times…

August 2010


The Queen, PS I love you, Flight Plan, Pillars of the Earth, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, A Walk in the Clouds,

July 2010

Inside Man, Shooter, Law Abiding Citizen, Stranger than Fiction, The Greatest, Bounty Hunter, The Gifted Hands, Good Night and Good Luck,

June 2010

Sugar, The Box, Lovely Bones, Valentines Day, Precious, The Hurt Locker, The Constant Gardener, 3:10 to Yuma, The Express

May 2010

The Soloist, Smoking Aces, Crazy Heart, Bad Lieutenant, Did you hear about the Morgans?, Amelia Earhart, Knowing, Avatar

February-April 2010

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Pianist Forever Strong, Brideshead Revisited, Earth, Swing Vote, Practical Magic, Hounddog, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Blindside, The Code, Valkyrie, Sherlock Holmes

January 2010

Obsessed, The Kite Runner, The Edge of Love, Angela’s Ashes, Definitely Maybe, Feast of Love, Frozen River, What Doesn’t Kill You, Talk to Me, Dark Streets, All About Steve

December 2009

New Moon, Julie/Julia, Four Christmases, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Personal Effects, The Proposal, DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, All the Kings Men, The Other Man, Hangover, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Food, Inc. Night at the Museum 2: Battle at the Smithsonian

November 2009

Two Lovers, Legends of the Fall, Passengers, Little Children, Amercan Violet, My Sister’s Keeper, The Ugly Truth,

October 2009

Duplicity, Revolutionary Road, Deception, Freedomland, Defiance

September 2009

Water, An American Crime, Because I Said So, The Secret Life of Bees, Lakeview Terrace, Rails and Ties

August 2009

The Beach, The Good Shepherd, The Guardian, Marley and Me

July 2009

The Ultimate Gift, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Memento, Catch and Release, Premonition, Atonement, No Reservations, Gran Torino, New in Town, 21, The Prestige, Babel, Spinning into Butter, Notes on a Scandal, The International

June 2009

The Other End of the Ocean, The Duchess, Nanny Diaries, Last Chance Harvey, Flawless, Shipping News, Amazing Grace, He’s Just Not that Into You, Match Point, Cadillac Records, Pearl Harbor

May 2009

The Reader, Electric Mist, Closing the Ring, Doubt, Elegy, Rachel Getting Married, Miss Potter, I’ve Loved You so Long, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Nothing But the Truth, Not Easily Broken, Flash of Genius, Children of  Huang Shi

April 2009

Reservation Road, Reign on Me, Perfect Stranger, Australia, What Happens in Vegas, Seven Pounds, Beverly Hills Chihuahua,

March 2009

Far and Away, Taking Chance, Twilight, Milk, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Goya’s Ghost

February 2009

Righteous Kill, Pride and Glory, Nights in Rodanthe, Changeling, Body of Lies, Eagle Eye

January 2009

Mamma Mia, The Dark Knight, Coyote Ugly

December 2008

Forgetting Sarah Marshall, PS. I Love You, The Visitor, My Zinc Bed

November 2008

88 Minutes, Made of Honor, Nim’s Island

September/October 2008

Sex and the City, Factory Girl, Smart People

August 2008

Vantage Point, The Other Boleyn Girl, Cleaner,

July 2008

Untraceable, The Bucket List, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, First Knight, Flags of our Fathers, Eastern Promises, Becoming Jane, The Last King of Scotland, The Kingdom

April-June 2008

Fools Gold, The Golden Compass, The Zodiac, 27 Dresses,The Great Debaters, Deja Vu, No Country for Old Men, The Departed, Charlie Wilson’s War, American Gangster, A Good Year, Elizabeth: The Golden Years, Hairspray, The Bucket List, Autism, the Musical, Fracture

March 2008

Gone Baby Gone, The Night Listener, 300, A New Day

February 2008

Michael Clayton

January 2008

The Bourne Ultimatum

December 2007

Mr. Brooks, Oceans 13, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

July 2007

Rocky Balboa, Freedom Writers, Pursuit of Happyness, Apocalypto

May 2007

Sense and Sensibility, The Holiday

April 2007

Marie Antoinette, Casino Royale, Madea Goes to Jail, United 93, The Sleeping Dictionary, Copying Beethoven, Blood Diamond, Kinky Boots

March 2007

Departed, In Her Shoes, Black Dahlia, Rumor Has It, Save the Last Dance 2

February 2007

Pride and Prejudice

February 2007

DaVinci Code,  Celestine Prophecy, Always on Top, You, Me and Dupree, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, About Adam

January 2007

Devil Wears Prada, The Producers, V for Vendetta

December 2006

Must Love Dogs

November 2006

Casanova, The Lake House, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Whale Rider, Madea’s Family Reunion, The Break Up

October 2006

Take the Lead, Chocolat, North Country,

September 2006

Imagine Me and You, 2 For the Money

August 2006

A Love Song for Bobby Long,  In Good Company, Monster

July 2006

Failure to Launch, Elizabethtown, As Good As it Gets, Tristan and Isolde, Match Point, Wedding Crashers, Frida , The Ringer

June 2006

Last Holiday, The Game, Being Julia,  The Ice Harvest, The Italian Job,  Enemy at the Gate, The Family Stone, The Red Violin, The Wedding Date

May 2006

King Kong, Hairspray, Ladder 49, Road to Perdition, 21 Grams, Joy Luck Club, Memoirs of a Geisha

April 2006

Walk the Line, Mask of Zorro, Crash, Black Hawk Down, Guarding Tess, Jarhead, Kate and Leopold, Almost Famous, Along Came a Spider

March 2006

The Door Under the Floor, Cliff Hanger, Eurotrip, Skeleton Key, RENT! (I’ll be watching this one over and over and over :-) Out of Time, Monster-In-Law, Saints and Soldiers, The Great Raid, Under Suspicion, Fever Pitch, Two Weeks Notice

February 2006

The L Word (entire seasons 1 & 2), Chasing Liberty, Something About Mary, Fat Albert,  (Olympics on every night so not many movies.)

January 2006

Message in a Bottle, Reversal, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Empire Falls, Hitch, Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Passion of the Christ, Control, Cold Mountain

December 2005 ( Not much…it’s football season!)

We constantly watch reruns of our faves (like Something’s Gotta Give, Sideways, Troy, Phantom of the Opera, etc) … but here’s some new ones:

Playing by Heart, Things to do Before You’re 30, The Interpreter, Crush, Saving Face, Identity, The Green Mile, Mr.& Mrs. Smith, 40 Year Old Virgin, Sexual Life, Mystic Pizza,

October 2005 ( Not much…it’s football season!)

Coach Carter, (Rome… on HBO…we’re hooked!), Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, The Terminal

August 2005

Troy

July 2005

Double Jeopardy, The Village, Sideways, White Noise, How Stella Got her Groove Back, House of Sand and Fog, Man on Fire, National Treasure, Murder by Numbers, Million Dollar Baby, The Missing, Big Fish

June  2005

Spanglish, Mystic River, Anger Management Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Under the Tuscan Sun, The Sea Inside, Kiss the Girls, The Aviator, Collateral, Beyond Borders, Taking Lives, In the Bedroom, Gothika

May  2005

Shall We Dance?, Something’s Got to Give, The Forgotten,  Boat Trip, Alfie, Closer, Up in the Villa, Manchurian Candidate,  Phantom of the Opera, Mona Lisa Smile, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, Ray, Closer, Head in the Clouds, Criminal, Friday Night Lights, Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Hotel Rwanda, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones-Edge of Reason, Men of Honor, Twisted, Birth, Desire for Love