The Last non-Monster movie you have watched?

[Monsters For Sale]

Believe it or not, A Christmas Story Christmas is a pretty good movie.


A Christmas Story Christmas, 2022 - DVD - Warner Brothers - Release Date:  October 31, 2023

It doesn't seem to be available on BLU-Ray yet.  Which seems strange to me, because I have had a bootleg BLU-Ray for quite some time now - well before the DVD was released.

It's 30 years later.  The Old Man is dead.  Ralphie is grown up now and has to take on the duties of family patriarch at Christmas.  Many of the old cast are back.  Julie Hagerty plays his mom.  (Melinda Dillon was too ill to participate.)

The movie hit very few sour notes and brings all the plot elements together at the end with a very sweet nod to the missing Old Man.

I highly recommend this one, and I usually hate sequels.  I think, given a fair chance, it will grow in popularity over the years.  Kinda like the original movie.


Go on.  Give it a chance.

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[Hepcat]

Go on.  Give it a chance.

Will do!

[Hepcat]

The Bishop's Wife (1947) - Trailer



I just find it risible that Cary Grant could be cast as a leading man. Was he really a Hollywood heart throb back in the day? Would he actually have been headline material on supermarket tabloids had they existed back in the 1930's and 1940's? Methinks he would have been more fitting subject matter for a Basil Gogos' Famous Monsters of Filmland cover.

[Mike Scott]

Finished watching the Terry Toons "Little Rochefort" and "Terry Bears" series and a bunch of TT one-offs. Now it's time to tackle the "Gandy Goose" series.

[Hepcat]

Excellent! I'm just doing one cartoon per day so I've watched only the first four Little Roquefort and Percy cartoons so far. I'll probably be mixing some Gandy Goose and Dinky Duck cartoons into my viewing schedule over the next couple of weeks.

[Hepcat]

Good fun and the girls are hot!

[Lunkenstein]

The Nine Lives of Christmas (2014)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
D.O.A. (1949)
Christmas a la Mode (2019)
Wild Hearts (2006)

[Hepcat]

It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) - Trailer





A very decent Xmas flick!

[Monsters For Sale]

I've always like "It Happened On 5th Avenue". It is one of those poor people against rich industrialists movies like "The Devil and Miss Jones" and the plot hinges on the tight housing situation that came out of the war, like "The More the Merrier".

[Mike Scott]

Finished watching the Terry Toons "Little Rochefort" and "Terry Bears" series and a bunch of TT one-offs. Now it's time to tackle the "Gandy Goose" series.

Instead, I finished all of the (available) 1940-1955 one-off (2-off, 3-off) Terry Toons cartoons. Now it's time for the 40+ "Gandy Goose" cartoons.

[Hepcat]

The first Gandy Goose cartoon almost put me off the series.

I've been going through each of the Little Roquefort, Mighty Mouse, Heckle & Jeckle, Fox & the Crow and Droopy series in order but one cartoon of each at a time. I've also dipped my toe into the Gandy Goose, Terry Bears, Herman & Katnip and Buzzy the Crow series but it's tough to figure out the order of the cartoons in the last two series.

[Mike Scott]

Coverin' a lot of ground, there.   You got the Terry Toons (Fox), plus Paramount, Columbia and MGM toons.

My Paramount collection is all Fleischer cartoons. The Popeye, Betty Boop, Superman and Color Classic series. MGM is all of the Tex Avery toons and early Tom & Jerry.

[Hepcat]

Coverin' a lot of ground, there.  

You're the one who gave me the idea of viewing various Terrytoon series in order! But then I quickly branched out to other theatrical cartoons from the same era.

[Lunkenstein]

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
A Christmas Carol (1984)

A Grandpa For Christmas (2007) - at age 90, Ernest Borgnine was great in this.

White Christmas (1954)
A Christmas Carol (1938)
A Christmas Carol (1951)
A Doggone Christmas (2016)

[Mike Scott]

Finished my adventures in Terryland with all of the available (50 out of 54) "Gandy Goose" cartoons. Time to cleanse the pallet with the new WB set.