By Andy Tarnoff Publisher Published Feb 11, 2008 at 9:09 PM

Last week, my co-worker John and had I one of those random conversations best suited for an afternoon with a foot of snow on the ground.

We listed the movies that, whenever they're on TV, we keep watching. John brought up the over-the-top "Independence Day." Both of us have seen this movie way too many times. They're not necessarily our favorite films -- though sometimes they are. But they're always the movies that whether cheesy, dramatic, hilarious or ridiculously bad, we just can't turn them off.

Tonight, I stumbled upon "The Truman Show" on Showtime. Not one of my favorites, though I did indeed like it at the time. But for some reason, I keep watching it every single time.

Here are a few of the other movies I'll watch over and over again (and remember Talkbackers, I'm not passing judgment on why these are on my list or even if I really like them). This list is surely incomplete, as it's just what comes to mind plus a few selections from what the cable channel guide tells me is on this week. In alphabetical order:

  • "Airplane!"
  • "Billy Madison"
  • "Blazing Saddles"
  • "Boogie Nights"
  • "The Breakfast Club"
  • "Caddyshack"
  • "Castaway"
  • "Deep Impact"
  • "Fletch"
  • "Go"
  • "Idiocracy"
  • "Jackass" and "Jackass Number Two"
  • "Major League"
  • "Munich"
  • "Napoleon Dynamite"
  • "No Way Out"
  • "Office Space"
  • "Old School"
  • "Planet of the Apes"
  • "Pulp Fiction"
  • "Rushmore"
  • "Sixteen Candles"
  • "Spies Likes Us"
  • "Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny"
  • "The Big Lebowksi"
  • "The Blues Brothers"
  • "The Jerk"
  • "The Shawshank Redemption"
  • "The Tao of Steve"
  • "Three Kings"
  • "Vacation" and "European Vacation"
  • "Weird Science"
  • Any "Star Trek" movie
Andy Tarnoff Publisher

Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.

Before launching OnMilwaukee.com in 1998 at age 23, he worked in public relations for two Milwaukee firms, most of the time daydreaming about starting his own publication.

Hobbies include running when he finds the time, fixing the rust on his '75 MGB, mowing the lawn at his cottage in the Northwoods, and making an annual pilgrimage to Phoenix for Brewers Spring Training.