f a v o r i t ef i l m s
2000 - present
Traffic, The Color of Paradise, Memento, Dancer in the Dark, The Deep End, Monsters Inc., Amelie, The Man Who Wasn't There, Moulin Rouge, Panic Room, Frailty, Training Day, About a Boy, The Pianist, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Finding Nemo, The Magdalene Sisters, Lost In Translation, The Rundown, School of Rock, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shaun of the Dead, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spider-Man 2, Collateral, The Incredibles, Finding Neverland, Million Dollar Baby, Kung Fu Hustle, City of God, Crash, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Sideways, Batman Begins, Brokeback Mountain, V For Vendetta, Mrs. and Mrs. Smith, The Descent, Casino Royale, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, The Departed, Superbad, The Bourne Supremacy, Once, Ratatouille, Zodiac, Gone Baby Gone, No Country for Old Men, The Mist, The Dark Knight, Wall-E

1990 - 1999

Seven	Forrest Gump	Titanic	Dark City	GoodFellas
Braveheart	The Remains of the Day	JFK	Run Lola Run	The Matrix
also: Election, Under Siege, Shadowlands, Unforgiven, The Fugitive, The Bridges of Madison County, Sneakers, A Little Princess, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Groundhog Day, Babe, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, The Sixth Sense, Awakenings, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Insider, The Nightmare Before Christmas, A Bug's Life, Heat, The Straight Story, The Cider House Rules, Pitch Black, Clueless, Ronin 1980 - 1989
The Shining	The Road Warrior	Back to the Future	The Abyss	Scarface
Aliens	Glory	Raiders of the Lost Ark	The Empire Strikes Back	A Fish Called Wanda
also: Raging Bull, Amadeus, Blade Runner, Gandhi, Field of Dreams, Die Hard, Fletch, Top Secret!, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Poltergeist, The Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, Big Trouble in Little China, The Terminator

f i l md i r e c t o r s
directors' hall of fame: Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, James Cameron, Robert Zemeckis, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, John Carpenter, Sam Peckinpah, Steven Spielberg, John Woo, Ridley Scott, David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lean, Tim Burton
best new directors: The Wachowski Brothers, Tom Tykwer, David Fincher, David Twohy, Alfonso Cuaron, M. Night Shyamalan, Peter Jackson, Shekhar Kapur, Antoine Fuqua

t e l e v i s i o n currently on the air
Lost	Curb Your Enthusiasm	The Office	South Park
The Simpsons	How I Met Your Mother	Scrubs	The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations	Battlestar Galactica	The Colbert Report
Las Vegas (guilty pleasure)	The Girls Next Door (guilty pleasure)	The Soup (guilty pleasure)	King of the Hill
hall of fame: Seinfeld, Firefly, Arrested Development, Chappelle's Show, Futurama, Just Shoot Me, Newsradio, M*A*S*H, Frasier, Max Headroom, Family Ties, V, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Honeymooners

f o o d

Nobody does a steak better than Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, located all around the country. For middle eastern food in LA, it's Javan. In Chicago, it's Reza's. For delicious chili cheesburgers in LA, go to Tommy's. In LA, there's a great little sandwich and salad place called Go Veggie.