Carrybean,
I enjoyed the 7 Up series having watched it from beginning. The last one we saw in the UK had them in their 40's. What a shocker!! The ones you thought would did well did'nt(the young boy from Liverpool who looked a bit like Paul McCartney ended up as a down and out) and the (Posh ones) especially one of the "toffee nosed upper crust Toffs" the real snooty one, well he turned out to be involved with charity work in Africa!

Marvellous program, hope it carries on into their 50/60's..

Haven't rented a movie in years. They're all on Pay Per View - or one of the 8 HBOs, 9 Showtimes etc. (Almost all the video stores in my neighborhood are gone - only one left within any reasonable distance - used to be at least a dozen.)

Rent through Blockbuster when it first started. Last movie was An Inconvenient Truth... made Al Gore look good, but had nothing really new to say. Evolution leads to De-Evolution. Coming in the mail.. I hope (actually it' usually pretty timely)... The Illusionist and One Night With The King. Is Netflix any better than BB? What are the perks/differences that we should switch for?

My library has free flicks too, and I use their collection to get caught up - I just saw Almost Famous. I liked it. WIth movie tickets and gas prices going up, I probably will start renting even tho I love the big screen.

Hi KellyAnn, I subscribe to Netflix. I haven't used Blockbuster. Do I understand it properly that with Blockbuster you can return the movie to their store and pick up the next one or mail it back and receive the next movie through the mail? I have a Blockbuster very close to where I live.
If you have time please let me know how Blockbuster works. Thanks!!

hi KellyAnn, You could start a new thread with your Blockbuster vs Netflicks question. It's pretty lost way down & in the middle of this thread that was started with a different kind of question.

LoveItaly,
Yes, I believe you have it right--with BB you can either mail it in or return to their store, but I think NetFlixs seems to have a much bigger foreign film selection, which is why I stay with them. Just saw Cinema Parisdisio--can't believe I haven't seen this gem before. We saw Chris Botti the other night and he kept raving about it, and now I see why.

Hi artlover, Cinema Paridiso..I loved it also!!! I have been offline for since Saturday and had a hard time sending emails since Friday..so..well you know. But all is OK now.

BTW, the movie from the book "I'm Not Scared"..you two might enjoy it. I can't remember the name of the Italian author but it was quite interesting to me especially since it took place in S Italy during the summer of 1978. We drove through the same area at the time this story (fiction of course) took place. I keep forgetting to rent it. The description of the area was so accurate and interesting as was the description of the life there during that time period.

We watched "Little Miss Sunshine" this weekend and loved it. Rental was through COmcast.

We have "Face in the Crowd" with Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Lee Remick ready to roll soon.

We try to keep some support heading our small indy video store's way.

We rent films from Blockbuster every weekend. Last weekend it was Man of the Year (good) and Babel (hated it)