Magnolia is definitely worth a watch, Billy. Tom Cruise playing himself -- an over-the-top superego.

that shouldn't have been a strain

OMG...you have to help me ladies...I can't believe I did what I did..... I was staying in a hotel on the weekend and the in-house movie was.....the dreaded double M...The Movie That Dare Not Speak It's Name. I swear I only watched about 10 mins...I swear...and now I'm bopping to Super Trooper...HELP!!!!

Thanking you kindly billy...It has been bothering me for weeks.

Thanks Terry - I'll just add it to my growing must-watch-dvd-before-i-die list...

A E Neuman - my pleasure is quadrupled knowing that i have stemmed the tide of bother for you.

To all users (4? 5? 6? of us?) of ATF please be assured that any queries, dilemmas, bothers, will be More...

"Yes, I've been brokenhearted
Blue since the day we parted
Why, why did I ever let you go?"

Sorry, Mary, but I couldn't resist.

AARRGGHH

Mary - consider yourself fortunate - a quick lyric search failed to find the words for, cover your ears, 'Supertrooper'!
Glutton for punishment that I am, I took my 4 eldest grandchildren today to see 'Madagascar 2' - their rating 5 stars, my rating 2 1/2 stars, it would have got 3 but, as is so More...

Thank you CynB. Believe me, I appreciate small mercies.
It is never your children's fault, because you raised them...therefore it has to be the pernicious influence of the in-laws!

PS Ditto

"The History Boys", a BBC drama written by Alan Bennett. Wonderful indeed. A story about eight intelligent young boys who are determined to gain a place at Oxford. Great humour. And Richard Griffiths as 'Hector' played his part beautifully.

Thanks, Andre'. The Assassination of Nixon. Free on On Demand on Comcast, so available on DVD. Didn't get any attention when it came out so it may have been straight to video. Too quiet and wierd for most, I guess. Sean Penn totally in control as a true nutcase, and Don Cheadle in a throwaway role More...

Bought the movie Eagle Eye. Has mixed reviews which means I will either love it or hate it.

Yes, billy, bothers are a nuisance indeed. They seem to be leaving me alone now. I must thank you for that.

A promotional quote from sources unknown for those of us for whom TPOEIAR 'Rickman is droll with dazzling perfection'. The movie is called Bottle Shock...that's all I (need to) know...

So Angie...which is it???

Mary, what's TPOEI?

How quickly one forgets...The Point of Everything is Alan Rickman....
The movie should do well in the US as I believe it is about how New World wines are better than the French ones.

When my friend and I were introduced to Woody Allen movies back in the good old days at Uni, we made a pact to see every WA movie that came out. Little did we think we would still be going 30+ years later (and maybe we shouldn't be). This latest effort, like too many of his recent ones, was just More...

I'm married to a Woody Allenphile. I can't stand him since his fling-turned-marriage, and with the exception of Hannah and Her Sisters, have found his movies to be a big yawn.

TPOEIAR indeed. Thanks for the heads up on the flick.

Ladies of this forum - I know this is frivolous and I obviously have too much time on my hands, but I just wanted to treat you to some eye candy -
Enjoy!

ooooooh yeah, thanx CynB Now I WAS going to say something deep and meaningful....but what the heck...

I'll try this again - it wouldn't accept last time. I reviewed the movies I saw over the Christmas break on DVD.
Last years blockbusters -
Get Smart - I can't think why they bothered, not funny, boring and I dozed off.
The Dark Knight - Oh I hated this one- far, far too long and didn't More...

Really liked Gran Torino. I'm not a CE fan...have never seen any of his movies (the trailers were enough to put me off) but this one was different. It was real and funny and sad. Mostly sad. Left me feeling like I had seen a movie that said something important...a rare treat...

I had an embarrassing moment the other night. Friend called about seeing The Changeline, "the new CE movie." I thought Gran Torino, and it wasn't until the opening scene with Angelina Jolie that I realized where I was. I don't do child abduction movies. I offerred to go to the mall and More...

Hey Terry, I agree. Before Kids I used to be able to watch anything. Then after the birth of my daughter I couldn't watch anything involving little girls getting hurt....boys? no worries, didn't bother me....and THEN...when I had my sons I turned into a basket case...can't watch anything bad about More...

You and me both, Mary. I don't even think The Changling worries about the little boy Angelina Jolie receives instead of her son. I would be a basket case screaming at the screen, "Why aren't you trying to get that child home?" I don't know how the movie actually resolves that situation, and don't want to know, thank you very much.

Just saw Blow Dry for the first time (2001) and don't know why given that TPOEIAR. Rachel Griffiths, Miranda Richardson and Bill Nighy costar along with a couple of Americans, one of whom inexplicably doesn't even attempt a British accent. The movie's not sure if it's comedy or a sticom version of More...

Saw I've loved You for So Long, a French movie with Kristen Scott-Thomas. She was fantastic in a moving portrait of despair.Not for anyone looking for a little light relief.

Waltz with Bashir, an incredible animated Israeli movie about the Sabra and Shatila massacres...harrowing

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button....curious. The make-up people should win an Oscar. How ever they made the maturely good-looking BP into a ravishing 20 y-o...I want some of that...oh, and BP too! The acting was terrific, the settings fantastic, but it just didn't grab me. A touch long-winded perhaps?

Valkyrie...based on a true story. Tom Cruise (I always see Cruise playing Tom Cruise and not the part he is supposed to be portraying), Bill Nighy being Bill Nighy - wonderful, and so many others, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Izzard, Terrence Stamp etc. The filming took place in Germany in orginal More...

Benicio is going to be on the 'Jonathan Ross' show - BBC, this week...oh my...be still my beating heart x

oooooh, Benicio!!!!!!!!!

yoohooo all! i love bill Nighy - did any one see 'the girl in the cafe'on telly?

Saw Doubt with the Meryl and the Philip, a bit like watching an act-off between the two of them, but i thought the oscar should go to the African American/black lady who played the boy's mother - brilliant. Engrossing, but the ending...not sure about it - seemed a little weak.

Went and saw CHANGELING today..have noted Terry & Mary's comments and have to add my 2 bob's worth. For those not in the know it is:

"Provocative thriller based on the actual incident in Los Angeles, 1928, that rocked California's legal system, 'Changeling' tells the shocking More...

Billy...I really enjoyed 'The Girl in the Cafe' but why did it have to be on so late at night...didn't mean to watch it but once I started there I stayed!

I watched 'Snow Cake' on DVD the other week. Alan Rickman and Sigourny Weaver (she was so good, and of course so was he). A beautiful, simple film. The ending was so right. Loved it. Can you say 'so right'? well I just did.

Oh bother I left her 'e' out. Sorry Sig!