Great Silence

The summer blockbuster movie season is starting to heat up, with movies as “X-Men: Origins,” “Star Trek” and “Harry Potter” opening soon. What films, currently showing or not, do you recommend for people seeking “alternative” choices?   Most of the movies on my list of favorites are either feel-good movies (“Babe,” “Hoosiers,” “The Full Monty”) or parables of human life and redemption (“Pleasantville,” “Field of Dreams,” “A River Runs Through It”)

The summer blockbuster movie season is starting to heat up, with movies as “X-Men: Origins,” “Star Trek” and “Harry Potter” opening soon. What films, currently showing or not, do you recommend for people seeking “alternative” choices?   Most of the movies on my list of favorites are either feel-good movies (“Babe,” “Hoosiers,” “The Full Monty”) or parables of human life and redemption (“Pleasantville,” “Field of Dreams,” “A River Runs Through It”)