Beauty and the Beast gets me, although its the ending.  The lady who voiced Belle, Paige O'Hara, cried for real at the end during recording.  Enough to get the producers to ask of she's okay.  That comes in very clearly in the finished film, god the way she is just begging the Beast to be okay is rough.

I listened to Edeilweiss the day he died.  Bad choice, or maybe a good choice.  I never met him but it hurt all the same. 

“Both Sides Now” gets me too, when it shows up on screen. The Judy Collins cover on Mad Men, the Emma Thompson breakdown in Love Actually

With ya there about crying more during beautiful moments. And all the stars for Man from Snowy River. 

I’m not gonna lie, I loved the latest remake of A Star Is Born — but *** SPOILERS ***

Dead Poets Society. It came out when I was a hunior in high school, right in the middle of a poetic/tragic phase, and during the suicide scene, I sobbed. The second time I watched it, I started crying about half way through, knowing what was going to happen. The third time, I started crying during the opening credits,…

The Karate Kid final shot broke me the first time I saw it. But on Rocky my pick is the famous running montage. That movie gets the epic out of the ugly and mundane like few others do.

“Missing” by EBTG is mine. And they were playing it so often. I always wondered, why do you drop this song in a dj set when it is so incredibly sad?

And you know it’s a negative because no one makes the punchline “you go through men faster than Leonardo DiCaprio goes through the newest models”.

Oh dear God, just saw the post-surgery picture. He should sue!

You by-the-book, pencil pushing hospital administrators have no respect for this eccentric medical genius!

The reason I think X-Men and Spider Man get that shine was simply that they were PG-13 Titles that younger audiences could get into, Blade was rated R and was known by hard core comic collectors not the mainstream general audience. X-Men & Spider Man like Batman and Superman before them had the benefit of being part…

I love both the Paddington movies. Really wonderful films. Warm, funny, charming, sweet, smart... They’re so good! I was thrilled to see that a third is in development, but I don’t know. Without King? Maybe it will work, but my excitement is much diminished by that part of the news. 

Captain von Trapp, my first celebrity crush. A great Sherlock Holmes in the fun, deeply silly Murder by Decree.

A Bug’s Life made more money, and it’s a far better film.

A little bit of love for Antz, c’mon. It’s the only Woody Allen movie I can stand to watch these days. That scene after the battle where Allen finds Danny Glover’s head is a blissful shot of dark humor. 

Columbo is a masterpiece. Especially the 1970s seasons, but the format was so durable even the 80s and 90s reboots are very watchable. Part of it is Peter Falk–has any role ever been better cast?–but the writing, direction, narrative etc are all top gear. I think the unconventional narrative arc encouraged interesting…