What’s Your Favorite Movie?

We all have a favorite movie ... what’s yours?

Cold weather and the holiday season are approaching, which means we will all be spending more time gathered around the television with family, friends or a beloved pet. So it’s time to queue up a few movies on your favorite streaming services, stock up on your go-to snacks and drinks, and pull out your most comfortable loungewear. On these pages, some of our members provide movie recommendations that might fit your mood.

Yashiba Blanchard

MOVIES DEPICT ENDLESS WAYS TO FIND LOVE

First, I am a “romantic and romantic comedy movie girl.” I love movies like “Maid in Manhattan,” “The Wedding Planner” and “The Notebook.” My favorite movie is “A Walk in The Clouds.” I love this movie because it reminds me of the endless circumstances in finding true love. The movie is about two individuals (Victoria and Paul) with individual personal dilemmas who spontaneously meet while traveling early on in their careers. Victoria, a university student, is expecting, which causes her to leave college to return home. Paul is a salesman who sells chocolates and is to be married soon to a person he does not love. Both are seriously unhappy with their present lives. Also, both characters need each other to accomplish their fate without knowing it. Paul agrees to help Victoria with her predicament, and they create a false love story that ultimately develops into a true love story —

“their love story.” This movie is simply splendid, and it demonstrates that personal dilemmas lead you to the love of your life!

Courtney Garrett

AN INSTANT CLASSIC FOR COMIC BOOK FANS

My favorite movie is Marvel’s “Avengers: End Game.” It is an instant classic for any comic book fan. The ending has to be one of the greatest. The moment Captain America realizes that every Marvel character from the past movies is standing behind him is epic!

Stanley Blackmon

WATCHING MARVEL MOVIES WITH MY SUPERHERO NEPHEWS

I’m a huge fan of the Marvel movies, especially “Avengers: Endgame,” “Black Panther” and “Spider-Man.” The movies are full of action, have good acting and are a great way to spend a few hours.

The movies are perfect to rewatch on a relaxed weekend, and I’ve loved getting to introduce my young nephews to the films. They think they’re superheroes themselves!

Allison Dearing

MUSICALS ARE A GREAT WAY TO ESCAPE

My all-time favorite movie is “The Sound of Music.” I’m a sucker for a musical! “The Greatest Showman” is a close second, followed by “La La Land.” Movie musicals are a great escape!

Justin Kelly

A MOVIE LOVER’S TOP PICKS

Ohhhhh, I love movies, so it’s hard to narrow down to one or two movies, as it can depend on my mood. Around Halloween I was on a deep dive into the movies of John Carpenter. His run of “Assault on Precinct 13,” “Halloween,” “The Fog,” “Escape from New York,” “The Thing,” “Christine,” “Starman” and “Big Trouble in Little China” from ’78 to ’86 is legendary. Since this is December, I could also discuss some great Christmas movies, but it would inevitably devolve into whether “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie, and no one needs to rehash that again. With all of that said, if I had to pick my favorite movie, it would probably be “North by Northwest.” Cary Grant’s Roger Thornhill is one of the coolest people to ever grace a movie screen, and it was peak Hitchcock.

Kimberly Jones

CAPTIVATED BY LOVE STORIES

My favorite movies usually depict a beautiful love story. What can I say, I’m a hopeless romantic. I can’t think of my absolute favorite off the top of my head, but one that I’ve seen more times than I care to admit and continue to cry during is “A Walk to Remember” starring Mandy Moore and Shane West. It’s a fairly predictable romance (as are most Nicholas Sparks novels) about a terminally ill teenager who wins over the heart of the “bad-boy.” My favorite line of the movie comes when Moore and West begin to engage in a friendship. Moore tells West she will only be his friend if he promises not to fall in love with her. Well, I am sure you can guess how it ends.