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A View to a Kill (1985) Day of the Jackal (1973) The Living Daylights (1987) 21 Grams (2003) You Can't Take It with You (1938) The Libertine (2004) Little Children (2006) The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964) The Mikado (1939) Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) Flesh and the Devil (1926) (silent) Rocky Horror Picture Show (1974) The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) Toy Story 3 (2010) The Da Vinci Code (2006) The Freshman (1990) The Prince of Tides (1991) Happy Go Lovely (1951) State of Grace (1990) Marlon Brando, Penelope Ann Miller, Bruce Kirby, Matthew Broderick in The Freshman Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Grayson Russell in Diary of a Wimpy Kid Martyn Green as Ko-Ko in The Mikado (filmed in color) Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (silent) Edward Fox and Cyril Cusack in Day of the Jackal Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Donald Meeks, Edward Arnold, Spring Byi...

William Taft IV, Chief Legal Adviser to the State Department in the Bush Administration, and, incidentally, great-grandson of President William Howard Taft As George W. Bush admitted to the world unabashedly that he had signed off on waterboarding suspected high-value Al Qaeda operatives, adding that he'd do it again, William Taft IV , former Chief Legal Adviser to the State Department under Colin Powell, spoke frankly on the subject of waterboarding and torture last Friday on BBC 4's afternoon radio program, " The World at One ", condemning it unequivocally: I think it was most unfortunate, both in terms of the reputation of the United States for adhering to the Geneva Conventions , which it had always done and been a strong supporter of them. It put our soldiers at risk of not being treated consistent with them, and it was a breach of our responsibilities to the individual terrorists who, dreadful as they may be, are human beings and should be treated humanely. W...

Comedian (2002) Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2008) My Cousin Vinny (1992) A Single Man (2009) Octopussy (1983) The Blind Side (2009) Bee Movie (2007) The Reader (2008) The Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996) The Purchase Price (1932) Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny Colin Firth in A Single Man Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent in The Purchase Price My movie-watching log is the only thing I seem to be able to keep up with these days, and even that's cursory. Hi ho, Technorrhetic Age!. Not pleased with the redesign of the IMDB pages. Comedian, Bee Movie, and My Cousin Vinny are the only films I'd seen before.

Since Meera signed up for Netflix, I find my film-watching frequency has increased...the watch-it-or-lose it effect. Miller's Crossing (1990) Pornography (2009) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) Rachel Getting Married (2008) Planet of the Apes (2001) Stranger than Fiction (2006) The Shaggy Dog (2006) Other Men's Women (1931) Office Space (1999) Jabberwocky (1977) Grant Withers and Joan Blondell in Other Men's Women Pete Scherer in Pornography Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie DeWitt in Rachel Getting Married Nobody told me just how bad Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes was, but I probably would have watched it anyway. As clumsy as the pacing and tone of Other Men's Women , the kiss, a pivotal scene in the film, was done with passion, power, and sensitivity. From the Forbidden Hollywood DVD series of TCM, which I highly recommend. Miller's Crossing , an old favorite when I hadn't seen since it came out, still the stunning film I remembered. Pornograp...

For Your Eyes Only (1981) Alice in Wonderland (2010) The Little Princess (1939) Passion Fish (1992) Silver City (2004) Road to Bali (1952) Road to Hollywood (1947) Saturday Night Fever (1977) Orange County (2002) Charade (1963) Fran Drescher's brief appearance with John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever David Strathairn and Mary McDonnell in Passion Fish Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in Road to Bali

Breach (2007) Night Nurse (1931) Man for All Seasons (1966) Female (1933) Where the Wild Things Are (2009) Lady Jane (1986) Milk (2008) Moonraker (1979) The Captain's Paradise (1953) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Blondell in Night Nurse (1931) Robert Shaw and Paul Scofield in Man for All Seasons (1966) Alison Drake in Female (1933)

VIDEO- Special BLUNT: Dear BP… Thank you to GottaLaff of The Political Carnival for creating the space and bringing together the expressions of citizens compelled to rage against the crimes of British Petroleum and its leadership. You'll find me in this artfully edited montage of rants; I'm identified by my Twitter name puxxled . My brother, Jamie ( jamieharbor ), also participated. It's pretty remarkable that we each independently made the same point in reference to BP CEO Tony Hayward having blithely remarked that he wanted to get his "life" back.

Klaus Wennemann (left) with Jürgen Prochnow in Das Boot (1981): Jon Hamm in the role of Don Draper in Mad Men : And while I'm here, Das Boot completes the latest batch of 10 movies I've watched in 2010 Three On a Match (1932) Up (2009) I Love You Again (1940) The Spy Who Loved M e (1977) Avatar (2009) Run Lola Run (1998) Love Crazy (1941) Made for Each Other (1939) State of Play (2009) The Boat (Das Boot) (1981)

happiness. , originally uploaded by marielllyyy . I'm suffering so I want others to suffer, too.

And we think of Dr. King—Dr. [Cornel] West, in this special, Amy, uses this phrase that only West could use it—I call it, it’s Westian to the core—but he talks, Amy, about the Santa Clausification, the Santa Clausification of Dr. King. I’ll let him unpack that Wednesday night. What he means by that, though, is that we have tamed and defanged and manicured and deodorized Dr. King so much that we’ve reduced him to a dreamer, in many ways the same things—the same thing that’s being done to Mandela now in South Africa, as if these men, Mandela and King, were not freedom fighters who were willing to pay a cost—indeed, in Martin’s case, the price of death, for standing in his truth. But to have that kind of pushback for being a truth teller and then to tell to your daddy, your co-pastor, that on Sunday morning you’re going to preach a sermon, with all the hell you’re catching still, entitled “Why America May”—emphasize the word “may”—“Go to Hell,” speaks again to how powerful Martin’s work a...

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) La cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children) (1995) A Free Soul (1931) The Moon-Spinners (1964) Duel (1972) Double Wedding (1937) Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) Animal Crackers (1930) Silk Stockings (1957)

Well worth $10,000 , originally uploaded by The Rachel Maddow Show . Well worth $10,000

Julie and Julia (2009) Home for the Holidays (1995) All Mine to Give (1957) The Nazis: A Warning from History (1998) Evelyn Prentice (1934) Meet the Fockers (2004) The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Live and Let Die (1973) Le genou de Claire (Claire's Knee) (1970) Good Neighbor Sam (1964) Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider in Good Neighbor Sam Myrna Loy and Una Merkel in Evelyn Prentice Jean-Claude Brialy and Béatrice Romand in Le genou de Claire

Hallelujah (1929) Coraline (2009) Familia (2005) Boys Town (1938) Men of Boys Town (1941) Miracle on 34th Street (1949) Christmas in Connecticut (1945) Huozhe (To Live) (1994) Home Alone (1990) Madadayo (1993) I tried to locate a "To Live" still of Ge You in the role of Fugui. His is the principle character, after all. I was thwarted, I guess, by the tyranny of Li Gong's beauty.