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• Watch on the Rhine

  

  Format: DVD from NetFlix on rockin’ flatscreen. Propaganda is weird. Seriously weird. For whatever reason, during the height of World War II, someone deemed it... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Nick's Pick: Millennium Actress

  

  Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on laptop. This is the third in a monthly series of reviews suggested by Nick Jobe at... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Brother Bear

  

  Format: Streaming video from NetFlix on laptop. My original plans this year were to try to knock out an animated feature once a week, something I haven’t done o... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• One Hundred Men and a Girl

  

  Format: VHS from Freeport Public Library through interlibrary loan projected on screen. Frequent readers here may have noted that I get a lot of the movies I... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Picture 2002

  

  The Contenders: Chicago (winner) Gangs of New York The Hours The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Pianist What’s Missing Overall, the Academy did a decent... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Boys Town

  

  Format: Turner Classic Movies on rockin’ flatscreen. I’ve mentioned WGN and Family Classics here before, and Boys Town is another film that showed up there at... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Scent of a Woman

  

  Format: DVD from NetFlix on rockin’ flatscreen. It’s no secret that there are Oscars awarded for performances that may not have earned them for careers that... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Henry V (1989)

  

  Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on laptop. Of all of shakespeare’splays, my favorite is MacBeth, which almost certainly means that Kumonosu Jo is my... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Big House

  

  Format: Turner Classic Movies on rockin’ flatscreen. I suppose there are enough prison films that it forms its own subgenre. It’s not one I think of a lot,... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hot Millions

  

  Format: DVD from Geneseo Public Library through interlibrary loan on laptop. There’s something in most of us that enjoys a crime film. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Little Women (1933)

  

  Format: DVD from NetFlix on laptop. I’ve made it a habit in general lately to stick all or most of the “very long wait” films on my NetFlix queue at the top of... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Picture 1986

  

  The Contenders: Children of a Lesser God Hannah and Her Sisters The Mission Platoon (winner) A Room with a View What’s Missing In a word, what’s missing is... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Morgan! (Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment)

  

  Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on laptop. Every now and then I find a film where it feels like the nomination went to... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Judgment at Nuremberg

  

  Format: DVD from NetFlix on laptop. There are a few films out there that are a wet dream from a casting perspective. Judgment at Nuremberg is just such a film. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Dark Victory

  

  Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on laptop. When I started watching films seriously, I wasn’t much of a Bette Davis fan. ... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Sin of Madelon Claudet

  

  Format: Turner Classic Movies on rockin’ flatscreen. There was evidently a genre of film in the early days in which a woman makes a single bad choice and... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Off Script: Friday the 13th

  

  Format: Independent Film Channel on rockin’ flatscreen. When you prepare to talk about one of the granddaddies of the horror/slasher genre, you need to be... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Heaven Can Wait (1978)

  

  Format: DVD from NetFlix on laptop. I think I can be forgiven if I assumed based on the name that the 1978 version of Heaven Can Wait was a remake of the film o... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actor 1967

  

  The Contenders: Warren Beatty: Bonnie and Clyde Paul Newman: Cool Hand Luke Dustin Hoffman: The Graduate Spencer Tracy: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Rod Steiger... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Magnificent Yankee

  

  Format: Turner Classic Movies on rockin’ flatscreen. Oh boy. February on TCM is great because every film they show has some connection to the Oscars and many... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES