What I am watching tonight

[jimw1]

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Old Mother Riley MP

Yes my new pooter has a really nice screen capture tool that is easy to use and oh I'm gonna go crazy using it LOL

That snipping tool is pretty handy torin

[torinfan]

That snipping tool is pretty handy torin

It certainly is! I think I made about 20 screen caps from that movie alone last night.

Because the 300 piccies I have of Torin right now are not enough.

[Honestman]

Plan to watch Three Men in a Boat (1956)

[Sgt Sunshine]

Out of the 8 films Santa had in his sack for me this year are the following two which will probably get a speedy viewing....

"Max" a 2002 war drama starring John Cusack & Noah Taylor directed by Menno Mayjes...



Munich, 1918. German-Jew Max Rothman has returned to much of his pre-war life which includes to his wife Nina and their two children, to his mistress Liselore von Peltz, and to his work as an art dealer. He has however not returned to being an aspiring painter as he lost his dominant right arm during the war. He is approached by an aspiring painter, a thirty-year old Austrian-Jew war veteran named Adolf Hitler, who wants him to show his works. Although he doesn't think the paintings are all that original and he doesn't really like Hitler as a person, Rothman takes Hitler under his wings if only because of their camaraderie of being war veterans, and knowing that Hitler had nothing and no one to come back to after the war unlike himself. Rothman believes that Hitler has promise if only he can find his original artistic point of view.

"Sur mes Levres" (Read my Lips) 2001 a crime drama starring Vincent Cassel & Emmanuelle Devos directed by Jacques Audiard....



Young secretary Carla is a long-time employee of a property development company. Loyal and hardworking, first to arrive and last to leave, Carla is beginning to chafe at the limitations of her career and is looking to move up. But as a 35-five-year-old woman with a hearing deficiency, she is not sure how to climb out of her humdrum life, though she is confident in her own abilities. Into her life comes Paul Angeli, a new trainee she decides to hire. Paul is 25 years old and completely unskilled, but Carla covers for him when the need arises because of his other qualities - he's a thief, fresh out of jail and very good-looking. It's a case of good meeting bad......

Cheers
Sgt S

[icetorch]

Just watched "The Toys That Made Christmas". Yes, Xmas is such rubbish, I can well imagine that toys made it. And if that's the case, what are the chances of us all just being characters in a computer game?

Anyway, Spirograph, Scalextric, etc. - it all brought back memories. And I used to love my World War 2 toy soldiers and the beautiful cast metal artillery, amphibians and tanks. Years later, my dad complained that I always seemed to have been playing with the *German* soldiers, as he recalled. But of course, I told him - the Germans had much smarter uniforms, whereas the British wore khaki, which I always thought was pronounced "cackie" - very off-putting. "Well, the Germans might have had smarter uniforms", smirked my father, "but they LOST the war!" "No, Dad!" I smilingly replied. "Not when *I* played with them, they didn't."

Going further back, to when I was about four or five, I remember punishing my teddy bear by putting him under the upturned washbasket and sitting on it, while gloatingly imagining the sheer claustrophobic terror he must have been undergoing. Occasionally I would peep through the basketwork to check whether he was crying, but he just would never cooperate. A real brick under stress, my teddy bear was - the best of British. It's bears like that that beat the Nazis (well, at least 12 years before *I* was born, of course).

One thing I remember about early childhood is all the illness you had to go through: mumps, measles, chickenpox. And fevers. I can remember lying in bed aged around 4 or 5, and experiencing sheer terror as the bedroom seemed to recede into near infinity, till the bedroom door was far, far away. And to think that some young adults at the time (early to mid 1960s) spent a fortune on LSD to experience such horrors. During another fever at a similar age, I felt an ache in the palm of one hand. It pulsed and pulsed and pulsed, ever stronger, until in my panic I was certain I felt an egg taking shape under the skin of my palm. "Mum, mum!" I screamed in terror. "There's an egg inside my hand!" "It's all right", she replied, from somewhere that I couldn't see (being lost inside my nightmare world), "it's just the fever".

Oh well, I'm middle-aged now. I have nothing to fear but old age, senility and infirmity. As for dying, I'm with Woody Allen on that one: I've nothing against it - I just don't want to be there when it happens.

[Mr Sloane]

The Producers on Channel 5 or I was until it realised it had been cut for presumably family viewing. Don't cut show something appropriate !

[Sgt Sunshine]

Quite right Mr S......
Why bother hacking and chopping up an "inappropriate" film at the wrong time of day........when you should be broadcasting it later on in its original version....
There's plenty of family favourite films that can be shown before the "watershed"....

[moonfleet]

Christmas TV could be nice, now watching Laurel & Hardy au Far West

[moonfleet]

Like each year at this time on TV ...the always so good La Grande Vadrouille

I missed it last year

The bath scene is to come

#1524

[Dr Karswell]

Dead Man's Evidence (1962)
Recorded this earlier today. Conrad Phillips is a British spy sent to investigate the mysterious corpse of a frogman washed up on the Irish coast. The body is thought to be of a defected agent, but the traitor is still at large.

[Sgt Sunshine]

My first Ingrid Bergman in a very long while......"Intermezzo" 1936 Swedish original.....



Cheers
Sgt S

[Sgt Sunshine]

Some goodies coming up at "Sarge's"

TAXI DRIVER



ON THE BEACH



DECEIVED



THE HOT SPOT



Cheers
Sgt S

[ayrshireman]

THE HOT SPOT

With your trousers down around your ankles..........

[ayrshireman]

Brighton Rock--the classic original

(just on CH4 this afternoon)

[Sgt Sunshine]

With your trousers down around your ankles..........

Have you been peeking through the key-hole again Mr A....
I'm going to have to start charging you....

[Steve Crook]

Two films that are on my viewing schedule for today

Escape from Sobibor (1987) (UK/Yugoslavia)
The "Yesterday" channel: 15:00 - 18:00
A TV movie about life, and death, in the Sobibor death camp. Starring Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer & Joanna Pacula
Harrowing but well made and well performed. Shows humanity at its worst, and at its best

Galaxy Quest (1999) (USA)
BBC2: 16:35 - 18:10
A superb SF spoof starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver & Alan Rickman
Actors in a TV SF series get caught up in a real adventure in outer space

Steve

[agutterfan]

Today at 221b Baker Street, Universal Studios

Mrs Hudson: "The postman left this package for you, Mr Holmes."

Dr Watson: "What is it, Holmes? A new case?"

Sherlock: "Hello! What's this. From a cursory examination of the packaging I deduce that this is from Amazon.UK but through a third party seller. It's a DVD box set. It's been digitally restored, it's called Sherlock Holmes - The Definitive Collection and it stars our old friends Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce."

Dr Watson: "Dashed amazing, Holmes. How do you do it?"

Sherlock: "Elementary, dear Watson, I did order it last week and I know the size of the set. At last, I can now face and defeat my worst enemy, my arch-nemesis."

Dr Watson: "Moriarty?"

Sherlock: "No you fool, Jeremy Brett!"

[charliekane]

Just watched Hangover Square starring Laird Cregar (his last movie, I think), with George Sanders and Linda Darnell. Gloriously over the top with LC as a composer seduced by Linda's charms (understandably) but suffering blackouts during which he has a tendency to kill people but can't remember it afterwards. Don'y uou hate it when that happens ?
Part of a very nice box set of John Brahms movies which includes Cregar in The Lodger with Merle Oberon and George Sanders again - excellent version, extremely well photographed with Victorian London's back streets convincingly dark and menacing - and surprisingly wet.

[jbg]

I'm getting involved in a bit of gladiator action. "what we do in life, echoes in eternity" best line!

J x

scottish actress

[Steve Crook]

So on Saturday there was nothing on telly worth watching and I had to resort to watching the dire remake of Brighton Rock. This evening we have too much choice with The Time Traveller's Wife, the book was interesting so I'd like to see what they did with it for the film. That is followed by Alien Resurrection. Also starting at 9pm we have 300, another remake but another one where I'd like to see what they did with it.

Also starting at 9pm we have Bomber Boys on BBC1 and Toughest Place to Be ... a Fisherman on BBC2. They both look to be interesting with good precedents. Then we also have Cricklewood Greats on BBC4 and the start of the new series of Being Human on BBC3

All starting at 9pm. I wonder how many channels I can record at the same time?

Steve