Yes, she may have died almost 6 years ago, but the year before she had said that there was a reason that they had been put in the same uni house ( Read more... )

2 Have you ever seen the same movie more than twice at a theater?Back when I was at college the film Gallipoli was released and I went with a few friends ( Read more... )

Well the sun is out again, so that's good news. It was nice to get a day of rain though as, although I am not a keen gardener, I do have tubs of plants ... so nice to see some flowers, and healthy shoots ( Read more... )

I am all behind with the meme, with reading your posts ... and life in general ( Read more... )

Thunderbirds ... The year is 2010. Teenager Alan Tracy, sent off to a distant boarding school, is the youngest of the sons of Jeff Tracy, a retired American astronaut. Jeff, a widower, has formed International Rescue, and raised his sons to act as a secret, volunteer organization which uses highly advanced technology to save lives worldwide. Jeff ( Read more... )

The film I was watching last night is certainly an "old one" ... Lost Horizon was made in 1937 and is the story of a British Foreign Secretary (Ronald Colman) on his way back to England, who was diverted to Shangri La. It is about the concept of finding Paradise ... but of love, peace, and how most of the group want that.

The original film has been ( Read more... )

For my birthday last year, Nick bought me a set of 50 films on DVD, and I am slowly watching those I didn't know. The latest one Blood on the Sun is starring James Cagney, and although filmed in 1945 it is in B&W.

Nick Condon James Cagney) is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the expansionist policies of ( Read more... )

I said I was going to be obscure for the next 10 films ... so here goes with the first.

Yellow Canary is a war film starring Anna Neagle as a socialite who is sent to Canada as a Nazi sympathiser. On the boat over she meets an Englishman and a Polish Captain.

Once there she is slowly to find out the Polish family are more Nazis ... and, yes you ( Read more... )

One story has been placed on film at least 3 times and has had a TV series on it. I love all the film versions, starring Leslie Howard, Anthony Andrews and David Niven. However the one here, which is my favourite stars Leslie Howard as The Scarlet Pimpernal

A great story of a British nobleman going to France during the civil war to rescue ( Read more... )

The first book I ever read without stopping (well, only to go to scvhool) ..3 nights sleepless nights!

Gone With The Wind  was a book that was filmed and won 10 oscars in doing so.

Everyone has heard about it, full of big name stars, memorable music and a time in history that is no more. A story of adversity, war and love. A film that has a sad ( Read more... )