I decided to watch 'Brief Encounter.' — javi2541997

Classic!

I watched the David Cronenberg film “The Brood” last night, to get in the Christmas mood. Excellent and horrible.

I also watched “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”. When it came out I’d probably decided I was too grown-up and edgy to watch it (I was 17), so I’d never seen it. My assessment: dumb and partly enjoyable.

Another in a line of movies that my son makes me watch to make me a more sophistimakated person - "The Long Day Closes." About a British boy in the 1950s and his daily life with his family, at school, and especially at the movies. What an odd little movie, but in the end I liked it. Nothing really happens. It's mostly a string of set pieces. Very slow and downbeat, but the people are appealing. What really makes it work is the music - I'm tempted to call it a musical, but that's not right. Every scene has a song, either a recording of Nat King Cole or Doris Day, an instrumental, or movie characters singing at a party.