Top DVDs from Netflex in the Last Two Years

My daughters conspired  a couple of years ago in getting me a gift certificate membership in Netflix DVD division for my birthday.  They pondered long and hard as to whether I would be receptive to a one or a two or even a three at time disc membership. They settled on two at a time.  When I am through watching two DVD movies and have returned them in their spritely red return postage return envelopes, a new set selected from my cue is dispatched from West Sacarmento or San Jose to my mailbox. It has worked out beautifully for me.  Some weeks when all of the stars align, I will get as many as 6 new movies to watch during the week.  The usual is 4 and sometimes as few as two will grace my computer top.  I supplement the group on order with some redbox gems that I may order on my computer and pick up at the grocery store nearby. I try to save these choices for the blockbusters that would require a "short wait" from the netfix cue. This "short wait" could be as long as a month.

Favorites of the Last two Years

Now mind you, this is in no way an Oscar list. This list is a group of movies that I have found interesting to watch over the last couple of years using the method of checkout noted above.  Some are ancient. Some are fairly new.  I offer these as a conversational starting point and an idea of my cinematic interest.  Recognize that that I have some prejudice in that I usually go for some rather sappy emotional romantic comedies, or action shoot them ups with some decent stuntwork rather than just CGI.

The following is meant as a descriptor for these movies and does not give them justice.

The Choice- A Nicholas Sparks Story set in the south with the romance centered around a choice that had to be made to sustain life.

Birdman- A oscar winning story about a actor that thought that he could fly
Boyhood- An amazing movie where the camera and the plot traces that maturity of a small boy into manhood
Bridge of Spies- In cold war times our country relied on a secret private industry "ordinary" salesman to secure the trading of Gary Powers our spy and one other American for one of the Soviet Union's top spy.

Brooklyn- The story of an Irish immigrant girl that leaves her home for a new one in America
Celeste and Jessie forever- Love and life in LA
Concussion-The story of brain injury and the doctor that discovered what was causing many NFL players to retire with strange effects
Flipped- Neighborhood girl from across the street at 7 goes crazy of the boy that moves in across the street. Era 1962
Grandma- Jane Fonda plays the grandparent of Lindsay Loein in Idaho. Lindsay is sent to live with Grandma before heading  off to college

Hector and the Search for Happiness- A psychiatrist flips out in his practice and heads for a around the world research as to what makes people happy in various cultures.

Infinitely Polar Bear- Father tries to become the responsible part despite his clinical state
 Joan Baez 75th Birthday- She sings all of the old ones and does a great job
Joe and the Volcano- Man verses his fate.. The modern allegory movie
Joy- She made it on Qvc despite her family's lack of faith
MI-5-- Mission Impossible 5 Tom Cruise and all
King of California- You will never look at Costco's floors the same. Hidden gold in California
Leap of Faith- Steve Martin squeezing the Oklahoma farmers for their last dime in the drought
Our Brand is Crisis- Joy and competition with American political advisors in the country of Boliva
Point Break- The latest with more than just surfing- infiltration of the off road criminals
The Five Year Engagement- A move to the midwest (Wisconsin) sends this gourmet chef and his fiancee  through issues
The Intern- Robert DeNario as an intern that supports a start up company in the same building as his old business