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In the coming days I’m going to be under fire on some knitting so this is a very timely theme for me as I like popping movies in to hasten the knitting progress. Of course the movies shown above have almost all been watched in the last few weeks or so :-} So I don’t necessarily need to watch them NOW. But I’m almost always up for watching them.

1. Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea (I’ll skip the third one, thank you). All this period film watching has me in a groove. I used to watch these two movies with my closest cousin every single year since we were probably about 10 and 11 years old. I couldn’t quite tell you the last time I watched them so they are high on my list to watch soon.

2. Also in the period genre, I’m anxious to move onto Return to Cranford, though I do realize that is considered the second season of a television show, but I think of all of those BBC/PBS/AMC mini-series like shows as movies personally. We watched the first season over the weekend and can’t quite remember what happens in the second season since some of what we thought was part of season two happened in the first four episodes.

3. We discovered some of the period literary adaptations we haven’t watched yet, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda to name just two that are streaming on NetFlix the last I looked. There are a few others where we haven’t seen that particular adaptation.

4. The Swedish language versions of The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest are two I *really* want to see. But with subtitles to read they aren’t doable while under deadline knitting so it’ll likely be March or later before I get a chance to watch them. But I did enjoy both the Swedish and American versions of the first movie.

5. When we saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in the theater (my first theatrical outing in mover a year, wow was that eye opening to my weight loss, LOL) they had a preview for Joyful Noise which looks like a fun, relatively light-hearted movie. Since it is in the theater right now I’m not likely to see it for a while.

6. Another current theatrical movie I’d like to see, and likely one more worthy of being seen on the big screen than #5 is Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. I enjoyed the first one, mostly because I didn’t expect it to hold super true to the literary character. That said, I fell asleep seeing it because we went just a day or two before Christmas to the late show and I was just tired out from prepping to host DH’s family.

7. I know DH wants to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and I think I could get into that one. It certainly has a great cast!

8. Water for Elephants is one I’ve been wanting to see for a while, but I kind of want to read the book first. Though sometimes the movies are better if you don’t know the book. Anyone care to ring in on that for this movie?

9. I’ve been thinking about I Hate Valentine’s Day as I noticed it was on NetFlix streaming right now. Though I’m a little reticent when they bring leads together in brand new roles. But aside from time, I guess I won’t lose anything in giving it a shot. Have you seen it? What did you think?

10. I definitely like a light rom com now and again too. You know, pretty people with no real problems. I could totally pop in The Proposal or The Back-Up Plan if we had them. And I’ve thought on and off lately about The Devil Wears Prada, it has been quite a while. There is also a part of me that wants to see Bridesmaids, but I’m worried that it’ll be a bit too heavy on the “painfully funny” side, especially after seeing Melissa McCarthy host SNL. Add that my sister didn’t like it and I’m reticent to spend any money to rent it.

I’m definitely feeling the winter doldrums so I’m open to any recommendations of comedies, romantic or not, though I’m not a big fan of the over the top slap stick variety. There is a definite bonus if it is streaming on NetFlix or Amazon! I’d love a few sitcoms to stream too. On my last trip home mom got me hooked on Big Bang Theory which I’ve been catching an episode of here and there streaming and onDemand, thankfully it doesn’t really need to be watched in order to be enjoyed. And when Mom and Amber were here we started Hot in Cleveland which I found hilarious and have since finished what was streaming. In the past decade it seems all I watch on TV has been dramas. And while I can definitely see the days getting longer already (it is actually still light when I head out for Wednesday yoga) some more laughter would be greatly appreciated!