Ok. While your hormones settle down, is no time to watch a tragic drama. Unless you’re looking to get the tears out once and for all. Instead, a light laugh is all you need. So, for your DVD and viewing pleasure, I present my top five movies for new mothers.

Ratphooey told me that Philadelphia doesn’t have a “movies for mommies” program like the very successful program run by Canada’s independent cinemas. Strangely enough, Philadephia has an independent chain of cinemas called the Ritz. This is how their mission statement reads:

The Ritz Theatres aim to play films which will appeal to a discriminating audience — movies which portray people and experience in ways that bear a reasonable relationship to the way life is lived, or which possess elements of artistic merit or provide an entertainment based on adult wit.

Unfortunately, The Ritz doesn’t see the …read more