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A Time to Kill (1996) plays again Monday Feb 18th @ 12:15 am pacific time on HD Network Movies

The Rainmaker (1997) plays again Thursday Feb 21st @ 8:15 am pictific time on Cinemax

BOTH John Grisham courtroom dramas are EXCELLENT. A Time to Kill review and cast in an earlier post in this thread. The Rainmaker stars  Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Jon Voight, Danny Glover and Mickey Rourke

Zero Dark Thirty

Pretty good movie.  Actually a lot better than I was expecting. I enjoyed seeing animals tortured in the early going.  I would love to volunteer for that job.

Movie rolled along good for 120 minutes, and then came the actual Bin Laden "mission."  Uhh, so borrrrring.  I fast forwarded through most of it.  So drawn out....screen dark...can't see.  Then 10 minutes of boring aftermath where nothing happened.  Ruined the movie for me.   Jessica Chastain is tough to look at too.  What a mug.  Overall a solid 7.5, but points demoted for the chick and boring behind finale.  Watching the Master again.....hitting me now how much I enjoyed it. 

So pretty much saw the bulk of the "real" Oscars movies.  If my vote was the final say for who gets the Oscars, my votes would be.......

Best Picture:  Argo
Best Actor:  Joaquin Phoenix
Best Actress:  Jennifer Lawrence
Supporting Actor:  Christoph Waltz
Supporting Actress:  Really can't say...Adams and Field each were on screen for 2 minutes tops.  Anne Hathaway was in a musical I couldn't get past the 22 minute mark.  I have no idea who Jacki Weaver was in Silver Linings.  Never heard of The Sessions for Helen Hunt. 
Best Director:  Ben Aff.....oh wait, he wasn't nominated.  David Russell for Silver Linings Playbook.

Any other categories either I don't care about, or Batman got the shaft and never was nominated.

Got to agree with you glyde saw Argo which is about the1979 Iranian hostage crisis.and it was fantastic!  Former Canadian Diplomat, Ken Taylor became an international hero following his success in sheltering the six Americans for three months. The longtime diplomat moved the Americans around to various safe houses finally managing to secure fake Canadian passports for them from Ottawa. I think it's a great reminder to both Americans/Canadians understanding the message of international co-operation and the great relationship we've always had with one another. 

I tried to watch the newest bond movie the other night, Sky Fall I think.

I fell asleep in the first hour, wasn't even that fukked up. It was really bad. It was so un-James-Bond-like.

watched the classic political drama All the King's Men (1949) the other night on Turner Classic Movies. it's loosly based on the life (and  assassination) of  1930's Louisiana Governor Huey Long. stars Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark (the Huey Long character) and John Ireland as his press secretary Jack Burden. won the Best Picture Oscar over others that became classics like Twelve O'Clock High. Crawford, who usually played either a cop or gangster in B-movies up until that time, won Best Actor and Mercedes McCambridge won Best Supporting Actress as the character of Sadie Burke, Stark's "campaign assistant". Ireland, who also usually played either a cop or gangster in B-movies, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor BUT lost to Dean Jagger in Twelve O'Clock High.

VERY well acted movie by all involved and it's worth watching or recording when it's on TCM OR getting from netflix.   

btw, the 2006 re-make with Sean Penn as Stark and Jude Law as Burden got a lot of pre-release Oscar "hype" because of the cast and story BUT ended up a critical and financial flop

'The last house on the street'

Meh.