Harper Lee’s novel became a beloved film for many reasons including the acting, the subject matter, and Elmer Bernstein’s perfect musical score.

For decades the Coen brothers — two boys from St. Louis Park, Minnesota, have delivered quirky characters and idiosyncratic movies — none more so than Jeff Bridges’ Dude in “The Big Lebowski”.

Events around him slowly transformed Oskar Schindler from just another a Nazi war profiteer into the man who saved 1,100 Jews from death at Auschwitz.

Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy remains the gold standard for movies about organized crime.

While this is a movie focused on four women (remarkable women, I must say), it is WAY MORE than a “chick flick”. I’ve watched it several times — with large gaps of time in between — and it continues to resonate with me.

Dr. Strangelove proceeds from the premise that a film about an accidental nuclear war can, in fact, be funny.

I’m sure the Cro-Magnons struggled with it as will people who someday colonize Mars: can men and women “just be friends” without “the sex thing” getting in the way?

Can a child and her bicycle serve as a metaphor for a quiet but radical change?

Zack is a new member of the U.S. Naval Aviator Academy whose rough life has left him an emotionally broken man. Fortunately, a sometimes brutal Marine sergeant and a local girl (Paula) provide him an epiphany.

Blazing Saddles lovably pokes fun at showbiz clichés, musical comedy, ethnic stereotypes, and cowboy conventions such that I laugh-til-I-cry.

The movie Boyhood is like the time-lapse-photography of plants growing in a nature documentary — except that we are watching 12 years of human lives roll by.