Well, Portia, I’m honoured, but I don’t think my answers would be sufficiently interesting to be worth posting. Since the books and movies bits don’t really have to do with me though, and since I don’t want to be a complete codger, here goes:
Good books (In no particular order):
1. The Divine Names Pseudo-Dyonysius
2. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
4. The “De Deo” section of the Summa Theologica St. Thomas Aquinas
5. Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6. The Cypresses Believe in God Josemaria Gironella
7. A Song for Nagasaki Fr. Paul Glynn
A gratuitous eighth: Master and Commander (and from what I hear, the rest of the series too.) Patrick O’Brian
Good movies:
1. Life is Beautiful
2. The Milagro Beanfield War
3. Hero
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5. The Passion (almost too good and too prayerful to list as a movie)
6. Strictly Ballroom
7. Pulp Fiction (heh, heh…)