I have always loved movies, and it would be very difficult to make any kind of list of so-called favorites. So I'll just give a list of some of the movies that tend to wind up on my DVD player again and again.

<strong><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-155" src="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/animal-169x300.jpg" alt="" width="169" height="300" />COMEDIES -- </strong>There's no more wonderful thing to do at a movie than laugh, and my love of comedies range from slob comedies to rom-coms. If I had to pick a favorite, it would definitely be <strong>Animal House (1978).</strong> I've probably seen it 20 times and I still laugh out loud every time I watch it. "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." Another film from that general time in the same genre is <strong>"Used Cars" (1980),</strong> probably the best performance Kurt Russell ever gave. And remember, "50 dollars never killed anybody."

Two of my other favorite comedies were both released the year I graduated from high school. <strong>"The Graduate" (1967)</strong> is remembered as an iconic film of my generation, while the original version of <strong>"Bedazzled" (1967),</strong> starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, matches up very well with anything Monty Python ever did.

Two more favorites came out six years later.<strong> "American Graffiti" (1973)</strong> pretty much created the entire '50s nostalgia movement, and despite his success in science fiction, was probably the best film George Lucas ever made. <strong>"Blume in Love" (1973)</strong> is my favorite of all of Paul Mazursky's films, the story of a man who lost his wife because of his adultery and how has to get her back.

Then there are the romantic comedies, aka "chick flicks." I've enjoyed more than a few of them in my time, but there are two that I can watch over and over and never get tired of them. <strong>"Notting Hill" (1999)</strong> and <strong>"Love Actually"  (2003)</strong> have a great deal in common. Both are set in London -- a city I truly love -- and both of them star some of my favorite actors. Hugh Grant is the perfect rom-com actor, and I've pretty much always liked Julia Roberts, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman.

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I suppose I'm actually just something of an Anglophile. I think if I were ever alone in the world -- God forbid -- I might choose to live in London over almost anywhere in the world. Part of my ancestry is English, and I like the culture a lot, even if the food isn't anything special.

<strong>BASEBALL --</strong> Some of my favorite films of all are about baseball, whether it was <strong>"Pride of the Yankees" (1942)</strong> when I was a kid, <strong>"Bang the Drum Slowly" (1973)</strong> when I was older or a couple of terrific movies starring Kevin Costner later in life. <strong>"Bull Durham" (1988)</strong> probably should be on the comedy list for its portrayal of minor-league baseball, but I think it says more about why we love baseball than any other movie I've ever seen.<strong> "Field of Dreams" (1989)</strong> gets a little too mystical at times, but it's still a movie that would make any top 10 of favorites I ever put together.

<strong>DRAMAS -- </strong>So many great ones. I'm re-watching <strong>"Gone With the Wind" (1939)</strong> in Blu-Ray, but I'll never forget seeing it at the Crest Theater in Crestline, Ohio, when I was about 10 years old. Back then, before video, before it was ever on television, they used to release GWTW every seven years and it always found a new audience. <strong>"Casablanca" (1942)</strong> will always be a favorite, as will <strong>"The Maltese Falcon" (1941)</strong>. Both movies totally capture the essence of what made Humphrey Bogart a big star. Coppola's <strong>"Godfather"</strong> movies will always be on my viewing list, as will Roman Polanski's<strong> "Chinatown" (1974)</strong> and Michael Cimino's <strong>"The Deer Hunter" (1978)</strong>.

<strong>GUILTY PLEASURES --</strong> Everybody who watches a lot of movies knows that sometimes the films we like aren't always the ones we know are any good. I have at least three or four movies that I watch over and over again that have never made anyone's 10 best list. I love <strong>"Hanover Street" (1979)</strong>, Peter Hyams' effort to make a World War II style romance 35 years after the war. Harrison Ford and Lesley Anne Down are perfect as the war-crossed lovers in 1942 London (there's that city again). <strong>"The Hollywood Knights" (1979)</strong> was an effort to rip off both "American Graffiti" and "Animal House," and it was so amateurishly made there are at least two or three places where we see a boom microphone in the top of the shot. But Robert Wuhl is hilarious as Newbomb Turk, and you haven't lived until you've heard the words to the theme from "Lawrence of Arabia."