Well it seems The Life of Brian is popular. As are the various Beatles albums. I'd just point out the two are linked since 'Brian' was made using Beatles money via George Harrison.

"Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy"

Yes Rhian. I'm also very fond of it. I enjoyed all 6 books in the trilogy!

Foxy listed "Bride & Prejudice". Is that the Bollywood musical based loosely on the Austen book? If so, I'd note that this would easily make my wife's top 5 list as well. I also rather enjoyed although mainly because the female lead was just insanely gorgeous and reminds us that there really are faces capable of launching a thousand ships.

ttbn wrote re Tom Robbins' death..." I appreciate the sense of loss, which can be very personal."

Quite apart from the loss of my favourite fiction author, its particularly poignant to me since I once met him. I happened to be in Seattle (he'd gone into semi-retirement around Puget Sound) in the mid 1990s and he was doing a book signing in my favourite boutique book store. A five minute conversation that remains very special to me

mhaze,

"Bride and Prejudice" , is a Bollywood rendition of
Jane Austen's classic.

I forgot to add that "Crazy Rich Asians", is another
that some may enjoy watching. It's about the life of
the wealthy in Modern China ( "Sex and the City"in
Singapore).

"Lemon Tree", is an Israeli film that offers a
thought-provoking vision of the West Bank troubles.
It's by Eran Riklis (Lithuanian ancestry) starring
the fabulous Hiam Abbass.

The film describes the legal efforts of a Palestinian widow
to stop the Israeli Defense Minister, her next door
neighbour from destroying the lemon trees in her family farm.

At the same time she develops a human bond with the Israeli
minister's wife.

Crocodile Dundee has just been gutted at the hands of the woke censors. The iconic "That's not a knife" scene is no more.

If you have a favourite movie that is the least non-woke, get a hard copy DVD and make a digital version to protect it from the censors. I did that with Casablanca a few years back when the censors came for it (too much gratuitous smoking) and also 'Golddiggers of 1933'.

My favorite non-woke movie is "Bozo Rides Again" which is a remake of that classic Ronnie Reagan 1951 block buster 'Bedtime For Bozo' where a youngish mhaze played the part of Bozo!

mhaze, I've got the original 'Crock Dundee', Paul Hogan's acting career reached its pinacol in that flick, however it was all downhill after that. Got a couple of early Russell Crowe movies 'Romper Stomper' and 'Spotswood', Crowe's career took off after that. You might like his new one 'Nuremburg' where Crowe plays an old folk hero of yours Hermie Goring.

Hi Paul,

Thanks for mentioning the film "Nuremberg". I'm looking
forward to its release. Many years ago I saw "Judgement
at Nuremberg", also with a stellar cast. This upcoming
fil with Russell Crowe and Rami Malek should also be
thought provoking.

It's interesting, while half of the criminals, the Nazis,
have been pursued all over the world for their crimes,
the other half, the
communist criminals, were allowed to go free.
They sat in Nuremberg,
and were in effect, given tacit permission to continue the
operation of their concentration camps,
to expand their draconian systems to
include psychiatric wards, thereby raising torture,
suppression, and murder to a science.

The fact that the process persisted was vividly disclosed to the
free world by Aleksandr Solshenitsyn and Alexei Navalny.

There's no disputing the enormity of Hitler's Holocaust. But it
is eqally important to be aware of the accomplishment of the
Soviet regime. The Soviet secret police, which brought death to
at least four times as many Russians, and others as Hitler did in
his eleven years as a leader ot the Third Reich.

And who will be the judges of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
What if anything (and who) will that involve? Who will have to
face international law and war crimes? If any?

Who will judge - and by what means?

Should we just let sleeping dogs lie?