List some of the movies you enjoyed seeing the most in no set order add to the list 

All Mine to Give

Friendly Persuasion

Cool Hand Luke

South  Pacific

To Kill a Mocking Bird

Forest Gump

Saving Private Ryan

In the Heat of the Night

Ben-hur

Bridge Over The River Kwai

The Shining

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Great Escape

 Bullitt

Battle of Britain

War Horse

On the Beach

Empire of the Sun

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Gotta agree with you on Jean Simmons. 

Jean Simmons? What's wrong with you two.

List some of the movies you enjoyed seeing the most in no set order

All Mine to Give

Friendly persuasion

Cool Hand Luke

South  Pacific

To Kill a Mocking Bird

Forest Gump

Saving Private Ryan

In the Heat of the Night

Ben-hur

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Goodfellas

True Grit

Jerimiah Johnson

Red October

The Untouchables

Officer & a Gentleman

The Shining

Gone With The Wind

Gotta agree with you on Jean Simmons. 

Jean Simmons? What's wrong with you two.

And Keith Richards out lived him. If that don't beat all, eh?

I may have put this on before. Anyway one of my favourite pieces of TV, from a 1988 drama mixing Jack the Ripper and the Jekyll and Hyde tale.

Some movies on my list:

Tombstone

Henry V

The Wind and the Lion

The Lion in Winter

Second Hand Lions

Frankenstein (Robert DeNiro)

Fantasia

The Sting

Sneakers

Untouchables

Rosemary's Baby

True Grit 

Walk the Line

Highlander

The Illusionist

I think Mel Brookes movie Young Frankenstein was one of the funniest.

I was going to put down also all of Toms, Shula's and Arts because of see them all but then someone for sure would pipe up and say that I watched too many movies.

I did as a kid go to the show 3 times a week in the evening and usually the Saturday matinee. On those evening shows they showed 3 different moves and a couple of cartoons every night.

When Tommy went to the show they were still showing black and white moves with no sound. Don't be smiling Shula because the same was also true for you.

Almost forgot The ILLUSIONIST (2006)movie which I know Shula would have liked for sure

If he took a date, it was $1.50.

I found The Illusionist (the full movie) on YouTube, Little Mr. Fauntleroy.  I'm iced in so I will watch it today with a bowl of popcorn but if someone attempts to saw someone in half and it goes wrong, I'm out of there.

Took a date?? I don't know about you but I waited until I was 11 before going out on show dates.

Yes, you must have been doing it also to know it was .25 cents a night and 10 cents for the Saturday Matinee. The wages in those days being not much more than a dollar and hour I guess I was a bit spoiled.  The big expense at the show was the pop, popcorn and candy. To solve that I hit the corner candy store on the way. It wasn't just a candy store it looked like the malt soda shop in the Bowery Boy movies. It had those marble topped tables for two and and chairs to match plus 5 stools at the counter. They sold all kinds of flavours of ice cream and tobacco products that only adults could buy unless you had a signed note from your parents to pick them up for them. The candy display was made up of candy for 5 cents or less and most was less, black ball, black babies, licorice red black or green was all 1cent for 3. Double Bubble chewing gum was one of the more expensive things a 2 cents each. A bag of potato chips was 5 cents

I got most of my money from collecting and returning pop bottles to that candy shop at 2 cents a bottle.

Well, wasn't that a matinee worth attending.  I loved The Illusionist.  Note that I have edited my movie list.

Also a bit of a love story throw in to keep you guessing

Yes, I did like the way the romance angle was played.  I also liked the lack of graphic violence, although you always wondered it something bad was going to happen.  Paul Giamatti was great as Inspector Uhl.

Growing up, anybody who was anybody was at the Saturday matinee.  The hub of activity on Sunday was at a drug store just up the street from the church I attended.  It was just as you described yours.  I can't remember the name.  I want to say it was Dave's but that was the name of the liquor store I lived next to in D.C.  It was also a hub of activity.

We called our candy store Georgie's and he looked a lot like the guy who run the malt shop in the Bowery boys movies. Same height, hair and looks. He had a son called Nick who wasn't as liberal with the game and if Georgie caught him doing it he would automatically take over. To Georgie it was all about the kids. The day came when his store and the 3 to the left were bought out by the city to build a Recreation Centre. I stood with Georgie on the opposite corner as the buildings were being torn down. You could see tears in his eyes and he put his hand on my shoulder for support probably thinking the next generation of kids would have to go without his store. The recreation Centre was top of the line though and had a large indoor pool, exercise room paddling pool at the rear for the little ones a games room, gymnasium with spring boards and horses to volt over and we also could play basket ball or floor hockey in. On Friday nights there was a teen dance, cartoons for the younger one. I also play hockey and baseball for the rec centre and we won the Toronto floor hockey championship and had a lot of father and son banquets were they would invite different Canadian athlete's in track or hockey to speak and sign autographs and then hand out things like hockey sticks with a silver dollar taped on the handle. The good thing about the Rec centre was it keep us kids off the street and good for our parents always knowing what we were up to and not in shite.

Mark, I have not forgotten about The Nebuly Coat.  I checked online to see if my library carries it and it does not.  I wouldn't have checked it out anyway because I am boycotting the library right now.  If you have time, the video I am posting is worth watching because the same thing may be happening in Britain, I don't know.  I give you John Oliver, a British comedian who has brilliantly tackled this horrid problem.  At marker 8:48 he talks about my library, Samuels Public Library.  I was in too much grief and turmoil when this situation began.  I couldn't sort it out in my head and therefore didn't feel qualified to get involved.  An update:  The Board of Supervisors apparently won and we now have a "Library Board".  When the fog lifts, I'll delve deeper.

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It appears that it's all or mostly right wings groups or thinkers that want these books band which apparently is against the first amendment like the video points out. So is these why you are boycotting the library right now?

Yes, I did like the way the romance angle was played.  I also liked the lack of graphic violence, although you always wondered it something bad was going to happen.  Paul Giamatti was great as Inspector Uhl.

Growing up, anybody who was anybody was at the Saturday matinee.  The hub of activity on Sunday was at a drug store just up the street from the church I attended.  It was just as you described yours.  I can't remember the name.  I want to say it was Dave's but that was the name of the liquor store I lived next to in D.C.  It was also a hub of activity.

We all had similar childhoods, what a great time to grow up, eh?

Over here the main issue with public libraries is the number that have closed to save money. Others are run by volunteers if the local Council reduces funding. I'm not aware of any campaign on the scale you have to restrict what's available. No doubt some complaints are made but not against hundreds of titles at a time. 

Library staff are employed by the local Council and cannot be removed by the public unless they've committed a genuine crime or breach of the rules when the Council will step in and investigate.   

Also John Oliver is new to me. 

Have another movie pick to add FARGO. You have probably seen it Shula but if not, worth a watch for sure.

FARGO?  You thought I would like Fargo?  Yes, I've seen it.  I loved the sheriff, dontcha know (or is that Wisconsin?), but the wood chipper scene ruined my life.  Thanks for the early morning recall.  Horrid little animal.  I suppose you also liked No Country for Old Men.

I would also add In the Electric Mist to my list.  It is based on the book In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke.

How about a Clockwork Orange from Britain. Now that is a weird movie 

Have you seen the Movie, Empire of the Sun Shula? Probably a 9 and 3/4's out of 10. Well worth a watch if you can get it. A two bowl of popcorn movie for sure.

It appears Shula has left the theatre for the last 3 days. Has anyone else seen the movie Empire of the Sun which is an American movie.

I haven't left the building.  My computer caught a virus and spent Wednesday afternoon to this afternoon at the computer doc's office.

I have not seen, and will not see, A Clockwork Orange.  I heard the gratuitous violence would be more than I could take.

I suppose you liked Reservoir Dogs, too.

I also have not seen Empire of the Sun.  It sounds like a Japanese movie.

Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American epic coming-of-age war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tom Stoppard, based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name. The film tells the story of Jamie "Jim" Graham (Christian Bale), a young boy who goes from living with his wealthy British family in Shanghai to becoming a prisoner of war in an internment camp operated by the Japanese during World War II.

Amid Japan's invasion of China during World War II, Jamie "Jim" Graham is a British upper middle class schoolboy enjoying a privileged life in the Shanghai International Settlement. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan begins occupying the settlement. As the Graham family evacuate the city, Jamie is separated from his parents and makes his way back to their house, assuming they will return. After a length of time alone and having eaten the remaining food, he ventures back into the city.

If I tell you any more I will ruin the movie for you. Its rated a 5 out of 5 star movie. This how it starts with the boy singing in church.

Keep a box of Kleenex handy because parts of the movie make cause you to shed a tear or two for this kid.