Wings, Futurama, Man V. Food
Jeeves and Wooster (except a couple of season 4, when they mostly run out of gas)
Man on Wire
A Man named Pearl
Young at Heart
The Way We Get By
Children of Heaven
Run Fat Boy, Run - British comedy
Hot Fuzz - British action comedy
In Bruges (graphic, yet funny, twisted British humor...)
For TV shows, I have been rewatching some old favorites:
Strangers With Candy
Arrested Development
Columbo (The 70’s NBC Mystery Movie of course, not crappy 80’s stuff)
Are you ready?
I adore Netflix because it has “different’ stuff.
For Anglophiles and documentary lovers:
Pride and Prejudice - an old BBC version. The Mr Darcy is not good (lets face it, Colin Firth defined it) but the Elizabeth is very nice and I really like the rest.
Ken Burns “The Shakers”.
Expiring very soon - Dolley Madison, the American Experience.
The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Series. If you’ve never tried it, and love mystery, this is the place. Start with “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”
The Joan Hickson Miss Marples. Perfection.
Blithe Spirit
MacBeth (with Picard set in a avantgarde USSR). My kids actually watched this with me.
Old Movies You May Not Have Seen:
Tin Pan Alley (I LOVE Alice Faye and Betty Grable) Fun singing here with John Payne and Jack Oakie also.
My Man Godfrey (William Powell was the man)
Walk Don’t Run (hopelessly out of date but I love it.)
Movies Most People have Seen but it’s fun to watch again:
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
Arsenic and Old Lace (give an extra star if it’s Halloween. Can a movie have 6 stars?)
Tora Tora Tora
Chariots of Fire - extra star if you like Vangelis
Weird things that are really good:
Tin Man (SciFi retelling of the Wizard of Oz)
Dead Like Me -R rated! And Weird. Really weird. But strangely reflective and really, really good with great writing. And the coolest music.
Jericho, Fawlty Towers, BSG, Dick Van Dyke Show, Trailer Park Boys.
Bella.
For the adults: Law and Order CI
For little kids: Pingu: Chillin’ with Pingu
Well, I’m going to break the rules by suggesting a DVD-only selection from Netflix (though they do have a trailer of this movie on their website) but it was just SUCH a good movie that I feel the need to trumpet it to anyone who will listen. It’s called “The Lives of Others” and it won the best foreign film Oscar for 2007. It’s about the East German secret police and some people who get entangled with them, and it is just tremendous!!!! My DH and I watched it with a couple of friends, and afterward we sat around discussing it for about 45 minutes, and the next day my DH and I had to talk about it some more. So thought-provoking and such a well-constructed movie. Worth the time to get it in the mail. (The “extras” part also has a very interesting interview with the director. Amazingly, it was his first feature film.)
"The Lives of Others"
William Buckley said the film was, quite possibly, the best he ever saw.
I watched it, too, and the film definitely shows the depths to which a totalitarian regime will go to stay in power--but how man can rise above the evil.
I highly recommend The Lives of Others.
If Leverage, season 1, is still available, it’s well worth it. Also lots of Buster Keaton.
“The Unit”
I never got to see the first season and its Only available on disc right now.
Downton Abbey
The 1934 Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” is very interesting in that it exemplifies how a group of narcissistic and sick people effectively used propaganda to push their agenda. It also shows how similar the Nazi/fascist and communist/socialist approaches to societal structuring are, both subverting the freedom and self-determination of the individual and pushing group-think ideology.
Downton Abbey BBC
Cranford BBC
A newish one with Diana Rigg, Mrs. Barclay? Mrs. Bartley? something like that. BBC
Medium is not too bad. NOT BBC
A Touch of Frost, if you like cop shows. BBC
Inpector Lewis, also a cop show. BBC
The mini series “Pillars of the Earth” was a good period drama. We are using Netflix frequently these days. It’s questionable if we will renew regular cable again.