Hello El loro

thanks for all your info too ..I dont mention It much but love any scrap of info 

You could go with Lovefilm.com (movies sent by post) i have been with them for about 6 years and have had no problems with them

Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 8/10

Welcome Aboard (Bienvenue parmi nous) (2012) 6/10

Kauwboy (2012) 8.5/10

On Boxing Day I watched How to Train Your Dragon (2010).

The best and most enjoyable animated film I've seen in years. A sequel is due to be released in the summer of 2014.

Flight (2012) 7/10

  Trilogy the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132620/

The Girl Who Played With Fire

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216487/

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1343097/

all on Ch 4

Yep I agree El Loro. It was sooo enjoyable! Best thing on tv this Christmas 

never thought of watching this sounds good though thanks

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892769/

Le Pere Noel a Les Yeux Bleus (1969) 7/10

Killing Them Softly (2012) 6/10

Hi jackassfan El Loro noseyrosie  and all on this thread

And a very Happy New Year to everyone here as well

I saw Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010). One of the better films based on a video game, not that that is much of a recommendation. Directed by Mike Newell rather than Uwe Boll who specialised in films made from video games and is generally regarded as the worst director since Edward Wood.

Vasilisa prekrasnaya (1939) 7/10

Lawless (2012) 6/10

The Tale Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi monogatari (1962) 8/10

The House (A Casa) (1997) 7/10

Lincoln (2012) 8/10

Crocodile (Ag-o) (1996) 7.5/10

The Paperboy (2012) 5/10

I saw a couple of Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films.

Follow the Fleet (1936) which also starred Randolph Scott and also featured Lucille Ball and Betty Grable. Not bad, though I could have done without the Astaire chewing gum for much of the first third of the film. The opening song is We Saw the Sea (and what did we see, we saw the sea). The final number is the classic Let's Face the Music and Dance.

Shall we Dance (1937) which also had Edward Everett Horton and Eric Blore (both in other Astaire/Rogers films). Let's Call the Whole Thing Off is in this film.

The final routine is Shall we Dance. The first half is a ballet scene with Astaire and the extraordinarily flexible Harriet Hoctor who was a ballerina. So flexible that she could touch her toes by bending backwards. The scene is the equivalent of what Gene Kelly did years later in the Broadway Melody section of Singin' in the Rain.

Shanghai Dreams (Qing hong) (2005) 7/10

The Possession (2012) 4/10

Pieta (2012) 8.5/10

Biutiful (2010) 7.5/10

 I have seen this film so many times ..both versions but Its not been on TCM for ages

Gaslight 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036855/

also this 

The Heiress

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041452/

Seven Psychopaths (2012) 7/10

Hitchcock (2012) 6/10

Django Unchained (2012) 9/10

The Silence (Sokout) (1998) 8/10

Wolves Lairs (Vlcie diery) (1948) 9/10

Kitty Foyle (1940) 6/10

I saw Stand by Me (1986) in the pre-watershed sanitised version. One of the best non-horror films based on a Stephen King novella.

The Birth Of Love (La naissance de l'amour) (1993) 8/10

Carnival In Flanders (La kermesse héroïque) (1935) 7/10

A couple of films I've seen recently.

I saw Tangled (2010), animated film based on Rapunzel. The 50th animated feature film from Disney. Although it was Disney's first CGI animation film, the feel of the film was unmistakeably Disney. Rapunzel's parents do not say a word in the film, rather like Dumbo.

I resaw The Band Wagon (1953) starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Top quality MGM musical and great fun. Other standouts are Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray and Jack Buchanan.

Near the beginning I spotted Steve Forrest in a very brief role. He is the brother of Dana Andrews and worked mainly on television. I remember him from the 1960s series The Baron.

War Witch (Rebelle) (2012) 8/10

Hotel Transylvania (2012) 4/10

The Impossible (2012) 7.5/10

Margaret (2011) 6/10

Silver Linings Playbook (2012) 8/10

Out Of Bounds (2011) 7/10

Snowflake and the Secret Fan 2011

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1541995/

In Time 2011

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/

Another Earth 2011

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549572/

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close  2011

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477302/

 Red Riding Hood 2011

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486185/

Seen those 2 films

Another Earth was ok and i didn't really like Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and that kid in the film was highly irritating

The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck And God (Ahiru to kamo no koinrokka) (2007) 8/10

Purge (Puhdistus) (2012) 6/10 

The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio) (1968) 7/10

The Presidents Last Bang (Geuddae geusaramdeul) (2005) 7/10

Stopped On Track (Halt auf freier Strecke) (2011) 9/10

The Sessions (2012) 7.5/10

  hyah agree about the last 

I watched The Constant Gardener (2005). Based on John le Carré's novel, starred Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz (justifiably winning the Oscar as best supporting actress), this was a fine, multi-layered film which was a love story, an exposé of gross malpractice of pharmaceutical drugs company and corruption, both political and big business, poverty in Africa, and a murder mystery.

The title seems to be a reference to Fiennes' character in being constant in his search to uncover the truth. Yes, he does some gardening, but that title must confuse people.

Tucked away towards the end of the closing credits is this (which is also a footnote to the novel).

Nobody in this story, and no outfit or corporation, thank God, is based upon an actual person or outfit in the real world. But I can tell you this; as my journey through the pharmaceutical jungle progressed, I came to realize that, by comparison with the reality, my story was as tame as a holiday postcard. --John Le Carré

I also noticed the vibrancy of colours in the Kenyan scenes compared to the more subdued colours in scenes elsewhere. The colours of some of the clothes worth by Kenyans, and the sands by Lake Turkana.

Some have drawn comparisons with another Bill Nighy film made in the same year - The Girl in the Cafe. A very different story but again is a love story and a plea for the alleviation of world poverty set at the time of the G8 conference on trying to tackle this.

By coincidence, Oxfam issued a few days ago a plea to the world's leaders to tackle world poverty at this coming week's World Economic Forum http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21094962

The Constant Gardener is a very good film, Rachel Weisz gave a very good peformance and was deserving of a nomination for supporting actress, but she should not have won the oscar over Amy Adams in Junebug

Have also seen The Girl In The Cafe which i really liked as well

The Hunters (Jagarna) (1996) 8/10

My Twentieth Century (Az en XX. szazadom) (1989) 7/10

Life Of Pi (2012) 4/10

Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 8/10

90 Minutes (90 minutter) (2012) 7/10