Loved #TheMidnightSky with George Clooney, visually stunning and a much-needed hopeful story of connection this holiday season. Out on Netflix on 12/23!

Loved seeing Trudie Styler’s movie “Freak Show,” which was released on Friday. It’s about a teen boy who runs for homecoming queen at his very conservative high school — I won’t spoil the ending for you!

Love that a part of the marketing plan for the @SonyPictures film "Searching" is a hackathon to create tools for parents and children to use technology more mindfully.

Some great takeaways from the new movie Bohemian Rhapsody, in which Freddie Mercury shows us how we can become our most authentic selves.

With Ray Dalio and @spikelee at the New York premiere of Paul Dalio's incredible new film "Touched with Fire"

At my home in LA celebrating Jennifer Aniston & Cake, an amazing film putting spotlight on mental health & addiction

Some great inspiration in @JLo’s new movie #SecondAct

Back in 2001, I wrote about how I hoped the movie Traffic would ignite a conversation about the drug war. And for a while it did. Yes, progress has been made at the state level — but only in a few states.

So please, get involved. See this powerful film — it will motivate you to take action.

Must-watch #EveryMindMatters short film — narrated by members of the royal family — focusing not only on awareness but on creating an actionable plan towards better mental health

My favorite on this list is "Won’t You Be My Neighbor?" about the life of Mr. Rogers. Loved it!

Saw @BernadetteFilm with my youngest daughter Isabella. Loved it! A great mother-daughter movie! So moving and funny!

One of my sleep “hacks,” which I began doing not long ago, is to stop sleeping in gym clothes in favor of proper pajamas. It lets your mind and body know it’s bedtime. And pajamas have rarely looked as glamorous as they do in Rear Window, when the incredibly beautiful Grace Kelly tells the incredibly handsome James Stewart (who’s wearing pajamas most of the movie, as he convalesces): “I’m going to stay with you tonight.” To figure out the mystery outside his window, naturally. When Stewart replies, “I won’t be able to give you any pajamas,” Kelly opens her Mark Cross overnight case and takes out a gorgeous-looking peach silk nightgown, with matching slippers. “I trade you: my feminine intuition for a bed for the night,” she says. “I’ll go along with that,” he answers. We never do find out how well they slept.

It’s not literally about sleep, but when I came to my own epiphany about sleep, it changed everything. I might as well have swallowed the red pill in The Matrix. When Morpheus first describes being trapped in the Matrix to Neo, it’s as if he’s talking about the all-too-familiar condition of perpetual sleep deprivation: it’s “a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch—a prison for your mind.” I’m glad I finally took the red pill—and there’s no going back now.

One sleeping don’t: don’t refuse to cast Johnny Fontane in your movie when asked to by Vito Corleone. In what might be the worst wake-up scenario in film history, producer Jack Woltz regains consciousness only to realize he’s been joined in bed by the severed head of one of his prize horses. The scene is even more jarring because of the beautiful dawn light and soft sounds of crickets as the camera takes us inside Woltz’s mansion. It’s a reminder there are worse things to wake up to than a jarring iPhone alarm.

I love the running series of scenes of the alarm clock hitting six A.M. in Groundhog Day (as “I Got You Babe” begins to play). What’s great is Bill Murray’s escalating reaction: throwing it off the table and finally smashing it to bits. We’ve all been there with alarm clocks. But we can’t smash them now—even though, for the sake of our sleep, we probably should—because for most of us they’re also our phones.

At the beginning of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ferris tries to get his friend Cameron, who is sick in bed, to come over. Cameron refuses, but after they hang up, he sings this little song to himself in bed, like a chant or a mantra: “When Cameron was in Egypt’s land … let my Cameron go.” Having a morning ritual, before we grab our phones and start our day, is a great habit. (I do a few minutes of breathing.) And it works for Cameron: he rallies, and winds up helping Ferris Bueller have a legendary day off.

In Home Alone, a power outage causes the McCallister parents to oversleep and nearly miss their flight to Paris. Their panic upon waking up—“We slept in!” they say to each other in unison—is familiar to all of us. And, as we all know, the ensuing chaos causes Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) to be left … home alone. On the one hand, yes, we all need to catch flights. On the other, it’s nice to be freed from the tyranny of alarm clocks every so often, even if it’s accidental!

There’s a great scene in The Holiday in which Kate Winslet’s character arrives in L.A. from London. Jet-lagged and in need of sleep, she presses a button by this beautiful plush bed and, to her delight, sees all the (blackout) shades in the bedroom come slowly down. The look of relief and joy on her face made me wish I had the same shade setup at home.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s I love this scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s when Holly Golightly is awakened by a phone call. She’s spent the night partying, which is a “don’t” for healthy sleep, but I do love her fabulous eye mask—a great tool for blocking out light. Would that we could all look as great as Audrey Hepburn does in one.