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Frank's top all-time favorite movies (in no particular order): Sergeant York
Braveheart
Papillon
Silence of the Lambs
Saving Private Ryan
Amelie
Frank's all-time least favorite movies (in no particular order): Police Academy movies (all of them)
Frank's recommendations for the best movies that no one has heard of (in no particular order): Buffalo 66
Box of Moonlight
Lawn Dogs
The Conversation
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Monsoon Wedding
Frank's Favorite Actors: Morgan Freeman
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Sam Rockwell
Frank's Favorite Actresses: Annete Benning (Ooooo la la!)
Jodie Foster
Frank's favorite director: Steven Spielberg (how can it not be?)
Frank's favorite movie soundtracks: Tommy
Almost Famous
9 1/2 Weeks
Blade Runner
Christopher Symonds
Chris is an Australian writer/screenwriter, an upcoming novelist, and Reel’s resident Horror expert (or nut) and news hound. He has lived, breathed, ate, slept and… well you know, films since he could talk; has an atypical OCD issue with DVDs being alphabetized; and an affinity for the Southern parts of North America... and the food... and the Southern Belles.
Christopher's all-time favorite movies (in no particular order): Jaws Classic Star Wars Trilogy (It’s one story) Misery Back To The Future Raiders Of The Lost Ark The Sixth Sense Superman Silence Of The Lambs Alien & Aliens Batman Begins Christopher's all-time least favorite movies (or crap list): Batman and Robin Anything directed by Uwe Boll Lake Placid 1 & 2
Children of the Living Dead
Alien vs. Predator movies (stop!!)
Jeepers Creepers movies
XXX movies (Not porn – the other action movies)
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (should have been ‘mediocrity’) Musicals of any kind (like Chinese Water Torture!!) Moonraker
Christopher's recommendations for the best movies that no one has heard of (in no particular order): Book of Love (directed by Bob Shaye)
Bully
Gone
Dreams on Spec (doco)
An Innocent Man
Christopher's Favorite Actor(s): Harrison Ford
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Chrisopher's favorite director: Steven Spielberg
Richard Donner
Christopher's favorite movie soundtracks: The Sixth Sense – James Newton Howard
Gladiator – Hans Zimmer
Cocoon – James Horner
Superman – John Williams
Batman – Danny Elfman
Terese Henry
Terese's top five all-time favorite movies (in no particular order): The Big Chill
Silence of the Lambs
Schindler's List
Sling Blade
To Kill a Mockingbird
Terese's all-time least favorite movie: Pulp Fiction
Terese's recommendations for the best movies that no one has heard of (in no particular order):
(Some are more unheard of than others) The Gift
The Spitfire Grill
My Dog Skip
Best in Show
Return to Paradise
Boiler Room
Suicide Kings
Memento
Terese's Favorite Actor: Kevin Spacey
Terese's Favorite Actress: Kathy Bates
Terese's favorite director: Alfred Hitchcock (can he be dead?)
Terese's favorite movie soundtracks: The Big Chill
Bladerunner
Richard Dennis
Richard is Entertainment Editor of WHERE MAGAZINE, film aficionado, screenwriter and film critic.
Richard's top five all-time favorite movies (in no particular order): Schindler's List
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Lawrence of Arabia
Richard's all-time least favorite movie: Happiness
Baby of Macon (Don't Seek it Out)
Richard's recommendations for the best movies that no one has heard of (in no particular order): Grosse Pointe Blank
State and Main
Richard's Favorite Actor: Tom Cruise/Johnny Depp (tie)
Richard's Favorite Actress: Kathy Bates
Richard's favorite director: Steven Spielberg
Richard's favorite movie soundtracks: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Schindler's List
Anita Wyst
Anita's all-time favorite movies: Momento
The Shawshank Redemption
Finding Neverland
Fargo
Anita's all-time least favorite movies: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Anita's recommendations for the best movies that no one has heard of : Manhattan
Lagaan
Nosferatu
Waiting for Guffman
Jeremiah's all-time favorite movies: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Se7en
Fargo
Blade Runner
Jeremiah's all-time least favorite movies: Starship Troopers
XTRO 2
Jeremiah's recommendations for the best movies that no one has heard of : The Jack Bull
The Quiet Man
Miller's Crossing
Zulu
Jeremiah's favorite actor Anthony Hopkins
Jeremiah's favorite actress Jodie Foster
Jeremiah's favorite director: Steven Spielberg
Jeremiah's favorite soundtrack: Jurassic Park
The Brothers McMullen
Brandi L. James
Brandi's all-time favorite movies: To Kill a Mockingbird
Shawshank Redemption
The Breakfast Club
Good Fellas Good Will Hunting
Brandi's all-time least favorite movies: Angel Eyes The Substitute
Brandi's recommendations for the best movies that no one has heard of : Return to Paradise
Dear Frankie
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Brandi's favorite director: John Hughes
Brandi's favorite soundtrack: Saturday Nite Fever
Pretty In Pink The Wedding Singer
Ingrid Hawkinson
Ingrid Hawkinson is a professor at UC Santa Cruz. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Western Michigan University.
Ingrid's all-time favorite movies: Dogville
Chuck & Buck
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Do The Right Thing
Ingrid's all-time least favorite movies: Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite
Ingrid's recommendations for the best movies that no one has heard of : Shoe Shine Boys
Johnny Guitar
Ingrid's favorite actor Richard Burton
Ingrid's favorite actress Nicole Kidman
Ingrid's favorite director: David Lynch Ingrid's favorite soundtrack: Deliverance
Triplets of Bellville
