[Gail]

I agree, Susan. I did not like Abba in the 80s (reminds me of my ex-husband -- to quote yuck!), but I LOVED Mama Mia!

I started watching Kings Go Forth last night. I'd only watched it once before when I first bought it. It's a poweful little film, but I can't stop thinking about that picture that someone posted of Frank and Tony...........with their backs to the camera

[Gregory]

Planet of the Apes. The original. I got it for Christmas and I love a good Rod Serling script.

[Marty]

Originally Posted by Gregory

Planet of the Apes.

and it features one of the very best fantasy film scores ever from Jerry Goldsmith.

just spun an episode of

Little Britain USA, dark, coarse, schoolboy humour on the surface but underpinned with some very witty, often surreal observation, the "son of sam" old lady whose conversations with her spaniel become darker and darker is a highlight of every episode, and of course (as always) the wordplay of Tom Baker's introductions.

Watched earlier today "Road To Utopia" Bing Crosby and Bob Hope - I'd NEVER seen it before, at least I don't remember ever seeing it, I quite enjoyed it.

Watching later "Holiday Inn" Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire another film I don't think I've ever seen, at least not all the way through... LOVE Fred Astaire, what a dancer, my favourite.

[Mark]

The Bells Of St. Mary's. Never seen it before, just bits and pieces of it... got it for my wife for Christmas... so I can watch it, of course.

[Stnwy18]

I'm on season 3 of The Office now.

Originally Posted by Susan

Mamma Mia I don't know how anyone could watch this and not smile. Even if you're not fond of ABBA (and I'm quite fond of ABBA). I was watching at work while people were beating each other up (aren't holidays with the family fun) and I was grinning from ear to ear the whole time. I want to watch it again at home without the interruptions where I can turn up the volume (and people aren't beating on each other).

Isn't it a GREAT "pick me up" Susan.

I went to buy it today, and still couldn't get it, still Number 1 and sold out where I shopped today.

[SinatraFan]

A Star Is Born - the 1954 version with Judy Garland and James Mason.

Originally Posted by Tina

Watched earlier today "Road To Utopia" Bing Crosby and Bob Hope - I'd NEVER seen it before, at least I don't remember ever seeing it, I quite enjoyed it.

Watching later "Holiday Inn" Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire another film I don't think I've ever seen, at least not all the way through... LOVE Fred Astaire, what a dancer, my favourite.

Two great movies, Tina! I have the "Road To" movies on DVD and they're always fun to watch. Also, Holiday Inn has some great songs and it was the movie that introduced White Christmas.

<< Holiday Inn has some great songs and it was the movie that introduced White Christmas. >>

It was Allen, and I agree some fantastic songs - found myself singing along, as one does.....LOL!

[brooklynbabe]

Cat Stevens -- A Classic Concert/Tea For The Tillerman Live
(Christmas gift from son #2)

[mikeg]

Murder She Wrote..Season two..I miss shows that had actual plots.
I watched Mamma Mia last night. It is wonderful. The Winner Takes It All by Meryl is great!

[randy s]

Last night i watched SNOW ANGELS,a very sad movie.If you are a fan of Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell,you"ll want to see this one.Easily their best work yet.Tonight its EAGLE EYE

[Marty]

An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe, originally a television production from the early 1970s, this little treasure I found as an extra on a set of Vincent Price AIP movies which have sat gathering dust for months and i'd largely ignored due to having them in various formats already, and what a treasure it is. Vincent Price reading Poe in minimal theatrical settings, relying solely on his craft as an actor to relate his tales, no overt histrionics, no special effects or sound engineering to create mood, no, just one of cinema's finest exponents breathing life into each and every line. "The Tell Tale Heart" segment is perhaps the finest version of this oft filmed classic of American literature I personally have seen, I was spellbound from the moment the titles began.

[Carolinagirl]

I'd like to see that, especially since I teach Poe.

Daughter and I watched JANE AUSTEN'S BOOK CLUB last night. I enjoyed it so much I want to start a club. I guess everyone feels that way after watching it. It wraps up so nicely like an Austen novel.

[randy s]

Smuckers Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich.a little someone thought it was a microwave.[on the other hand i did enjoy watching it]

[Judy]

Newly colorized "Holiday Inn"...my siblings (aged 51 down to 37) sat in awe of it, commenting that they normally hated colorized movies...

[SinatraFan]

Originally Posted by Marty

An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe

Thanks for letting us know about it, Marty. Edgar Allan Poe and Vincent Price are always a great combination... no one can tell a Poe story better than Price.

[Nancy]

Originally Posted by randy s

Smuckers Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich.a little someone thought it was a microwave.[on the other hand i did enjoy watching it]

Oh, Randu.

[randy s]

Guess i"vo lost some speed.Hard to keep up with a 3 year old.

[Marty]

My Boy Jack, a TV film from the UK which combines a couple of my interests, the trench warfare of 1914-1918 and the writer Rudyard Kipling, an exceptional script from David Haig (who also plays the man of letters himself) dealing first with Kipling's efforts to have his son, John, commissioned in the British army then his search for John who was reported "missing in action" at Loos on the western front. Haig's play about Kipling has the writer's wartime experiences mirror that of the British people as he moves from vociforous supporter of the war to questioning the manner in which the military top brass executed the campaign. The acting is top notch (Kim Cattrall especially proving her dramatic credentials as Kipling's wife) and the themes of honour, loss and reconciliation sympathetically handled without descending into the overtly sentimental.

“Have you news of my boy Jack?”
Not this tide.
“When d’you think that he’ll come back?”
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.

“Has any one else had word of him?”
Not this tide.
For what is sunk will hardly swim,
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.

“Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?”
None this tide,
Nor any tide,
Except he did not shame his kind
Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide.

Then hold your head up all the more,
This tide,
And every tide;
Because he was the son you bore,
And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!