Top-Rated Movie Recommendations: My Favorite Movie List On Blu-ray & DVD

Yes, I loved Batman: The Dark Knight. I did not love it at the movie theatre but I loved it at home. It was beautiful (I know a unique choice of words for Batman) on our new HDTV television and blu-ray player. I am sure that I took more away from this movie when I watched it the second time in the comfort of our home theatre. This is a dark movie, suitable perhaps for mature high schoolers and not for young children.

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Chocolat is one of my favorite movies of all time. It was nominated for five Academy Awards which included Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. It featured great talent, chocolat and romance with the likes of my favorite actor, JOHNNY DEPP plus Judi Dench, Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina and Lena Olin.

Definitely a romantic picture, it features a young woman travelling with her daughter and struggling for acceptance of her unusual ways. She opens a lovely chocolat shop in a small rural town in France and is eventually embraced by many of the townspeople. She befriends a group of drifters with one very interesting young man amongst them, Johnny Depp.

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When this movie came out, my husband and I had two children under five and we struggled to go to the movie theatre to see it, but we failed. When it came out on DVD, we waited to see it together but once again our young children and his work travel schedule, conspired against us and we failed again. Finally, when he was out of town, I watched it on my own. I did not realize that he had really wanted to watch it with ME and that made the fact that it was a phenomenal romantic comedy, one of my favorite movies, even worse.

A young woman (Meg Ryan) is ditched by her fiancé in favor of a beautiful French lady. In an effort to win her boyfriend back, she heads to Paris. She winds up working with a French thief (Kevn Kline) who tries to help her get her boyfriend back. Of course, nothing works out as planned and they find themselves changed in the most unexpected ways.

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Who would ever have thought a movie about a rat in the kitchen would be so wonderful? Not me. Nor would I have thought I would have an animated movie on my list of favorite movies but, Remy sure was persuasive. This movie was delightful with good food, good music and a fun story and so, it makes my list.

The story line, in case you are not familiar with this movie, is that of a rat (Remy) who wants to be a famous chef but of course, rats are not welcome in the kitchen. He joins forces with a young man in the kitchen and together they cook their way to success.

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Ratatouille on DVD or blu-ray
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Anyone of my generation grew up with The Wizard of Oz and, if you were like our family, you watched it every year, once a year when it appeared on your local television network. The story is a classic musical that was on my list before there was a list.

While I haven't had the opportunity to view The Wizard of Oz yet on blu-ray, I was excited when it was announced that it would be released on that format and thrilled to hear the positive reviews of the blu-ray release when it did become available. Hopefully, I will have the opportunity to view it in blu-ray before too long.

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Wizard of Oz movie on blu-ray or DVD
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