Netflix Goodies!

Just loaded up my Netflix queue! I just love Netflix! Based on my ratings when I watch movies it reccommends new ones for me, or suggests by catagory, etc. I just reviewed all the Oscar winners for Best Picture and added a few.
I just watched the top three movies, (and included reviews)- the others are coming soon.

Love getting that red envelope in the mail.... ;)

Laura
(didn't like... too forced and non-likable characters. Didn't finish)


2 The Stratton Story
Good ol' Jimmy Stewart and good ol' June Allyson as baseball pitcher Monty Stratton and his (perfect..lol) wife. Funny thing as these same actors were paired up as Glenn Miller and wife in the Glenn Miller Story.. had trouble switching from trombone to baseball bat. But nice, happy, inspiring movie and I googled Monty Stratton after I watched it and learned something new.


3 Command Decision
Really liked it- so did Bryan. All male cast. Clark Gable (love him...) and this WWII film was made after the war. First WWII film (so I understand) that showed the flawed relationship between the military/politicians/media. Yes! We saw some of the same issues we are seeing today.. Miliary trying to do their job, fat politicians trying to position it with the public and their careers and media (newspapermen) sometimes allies, sometimes not.
Recommend...

And these are coming to my 'theater' soon!






Leave Her to Heaven


Something the Lord Made


A Lesson Before Dying


Since You Went Away
UR Classics Now

So Proudly We Hail!


Schindler's List


All Quiet on the Western Front


How Green Was My Valley


A Man for All Seasons

I Remember Mama

What a sweet, lovely movie. I will have to Google this, as I bet is is autobiographcial of the daugther who narrated and said in the movie she wanted to be a writer. Reminds me of Jo in Little Women.

The movie was made in 1948 but is period set in San Francisco in the 1910-1920 period (I think). There are horses but a few cars. :-)

It is the story of Norweigan immigrants. Wonderful family. Hard working and NOT perfect. I loved the Uncle Chris character.

Oh, and Barbara Bel Geddes played the narrating dd Catherine... I kept seeing shades of the later Miss Ellie of Dallas fame!

Hope you enjoy!I Remember Mama

The Wright Stuff

We all loved this American Experience documentary about the Wright Brothers.
For my son who is not into dusty history or long intricate books, we are finding well done biographies fit the bill perfectly.

From the Netflix site:

This compelling documentary chronicles how the eccentric Wright brothers -- two seemingly ordinary young men who ran a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio -- became self-taught aeronautical engineers and overcame the skepticism of the world to build the first successful flying machine. Garrison Keillor narrates and David McCullough hosts this program that originally aired as an episode of the Emmy Award-winning PBS series "The American Experience.