Just about to watch the secong half of 'The Odessa File.'

All the best from Fredrik

wathced Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade last night.

Master and Commander last Sunday

Buuba Ho-Tep

Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis. We find the King(Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack(Ossie Davis), a (black) fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth
to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility
as his happy hunting grounds…

Batman Begins

Oh yeah baby, what a movie!

'Batman Begins'...Good Movie, enhanced thru my system!

Nick.

I saw Bubba Ho-Tep as well some time ago and would definitely recommend it and I'm thinking of buying the DVD myself.

For a couple of years now, and following too many disappointments with sound and image quality, I've felt that my home cinema setup was better than any of the local cinemas so just don't go to the cinema any more. So last night I watched Start Wars Episode III for the first time.

For blistering eye-candy, oof, that 15 minute opener certainly hits the spot.

Allan

Gordon Ramsay Cooks Christmas - free in the Sunday Times.
Bloody awful recipes.

Bob
Really? I was taken with the goose, but have never cooked one myself.
Martin

Finally finished LOTR extended box set and most of the extras. Ended up with a replacement from Amazon as disk 1 of Two Towers was cracked and scratched even though the set seemed to be in its original cellaphane wrappings.

Howard

All of available Aardman product. I am always surprised how much I enjoy my favourites the Indy films when I watch them yearly.

I went through all of the LOTR 'Special Extended' blah blah extras in straight 14 hors or so, and somehow have watched the films DVDs twice at insistance of family. I do not think I shall watch them again, as I like Tolkien version better.

Yesterday family compelled me to watch potentially cheesey G4 DVD, and they surprisingly enjoyed it.

Today with a bit of luck my Kaiser Chiefs 'Enjoyment' should arrive.

I am looking forward to DVD of Potter 4, which I thought was a really good film/much better than Rowling's 636 pages.

Oh Mr Porter - Will Hay et al.

They don't make films like that anymore.

Chumpy, what's G4? And did you enjoy it?

As to LOTR, I have the extended editions - only watched once. Too long...and the Two towers is a travesty.

24 Season 4 - Relaxing entertainment just before bed!

Great action.

Martin
carrots in orange juice? Yuk!

G4 is a potentially cheesey foursome of male classically trained singers who finished thankfully only 2nd in naff UK 'X Factor' show last year.

This year they have released 2 album CDs/DVD etc with some nice singing of Classical & Pop tunes, as well as some not so nice material.

March of the Penguins ,Just Buy It!

Ah! Thanks Chumpy!

Chocolate Factory
10 Yards
Nightmare b4 Christmas


WillyWonka was brilliant
Jag

Italian Job. (1969) So funny! Fredrik

War of the Worlds. (Hired)

The tension was quite well maintained right up to the weak but inevitable ending of what came across as a low-budget number.

Cruise has the ability to look constantly vulnerable without anybody actually caring what happens to him. At least they didn't set him up as an invulnerable, elite special-forces, action-man. (Not this week anyway)

Just another formula film I'm afraid with only a couple of memorable moments. Listen out for the infamous line: "Gee! They've been planning this invasion for a million years!" Yeah, right.

Don't let me put you off. There are worse ways of spending a couple of hours indoors for a couple of quid. Watch it just to enjoy Cruise rushing forwards to stare up at yet another, wierd (Close Encounters/Independance Day/etc) storm in the sky with the flyover completely blocking his view!

Haibane Renmei (Vol. 1). An anime with potential - how much remains to be seen, since the first four episodes seem to be simply setting up the story and the characters...

Last Exile (Vol 2) So far, it's an interesting anime series, which takes several not particularly original elements and somehow combines them into something unique. Good characterisation, atmosperic animation, sound and music, and unforced plot development all help...

Devil's Rejects (unrated DVD)

Bloody excellent

Peter Gabriel - Growing up live.

Great concert with a very well recorded soundtrack, although this is playing through a modest Denon DVD player connected to my 102 via a 5m phono extension...

Sopranos series 5 disc 4

It gets better & better

Can't wait for the final series

The Manchurian Candidate, (Denzel Washington remake). I really liked it, and as several people have told me that the original is better I've added that to the wish list.

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Originally posted by Quasimodoh!:
The Manchurian Candidate, (Denzel Washington remake). I really liked it, and as several people have told me that the original is better I've added that to the wish list.

Unless you've seen it already, you should put 'Man On Fire' on your list if you like Denzil Washington.

Spookily "Growing Up Live" by Peter Gabriel, same as Phil Cork. First saw the DVD at a Naim evening at PJHiFi in Guildford in March and bought my own copy thereafter.
I'm taking the audio out from Panasonic LCD tv to Input 6 (configured to accept phono inputs instead of DIN) on my 282 and it sounds really excellent. I use the same set up for watching regular tv. The two channel sound is really excellent.

Have just finished re-watching 'Sideways'. Absolutely fantastic film, and am using it as the inspiration (or excuse, depending upon how you look at it) for cracking open a nice bottle of red wine. Lovely.