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Unstoppable and Other Train Movies

Train Tuesdays Unstoppable is a new movie out about a runaway train. Despite generally favorable reviews, I think I’ll wait until Unstoppable is out on DVD to watch it. Here’s the trailer: NBC’s Saturday Night Live made a good spoof airing last weekend: Other Train Movies My friend Jon sent me this link to other [...]

More Movies on Free TV

I wanted to follow up on my original post covering good movies on free tv. Watching free tv with an antenna is a great alternative to paying for cable subscriptions. I recently watched some more decent movies on free, over-the-air tv. Commercials In general, I do not mind commercials shown during movies on television. Commercials [...]

24 Withdrawal

My favorite (free) TV show ended this spring, but fortunately I did not start watching 24 until Season 6. This leaves a lot of old episodes I can watch. I received Seasons 1 & 2 as a Father’s Day present so that will tide me over for awhile. Also, there is a 24 movie in [...]

Movies on Free TV

I’m a big proponent of canceling cable and watching free over-the-air tv. The only real hardship involved is giving up movie channels. When I was younger, there used to be a bunch of good old movies on tv. Whereas nowadays, some of my local affiliates appear to be showing more infomercials. There still are good [...]

Falling Slowly

Music Mondays I often don’t care for much pop music out these days, but Falling Slowly is a good song. The original is acoustic with just guitar, piano, and voice. Once The song was featured in a movie called Once. Once was good, although a bit different than most movies in that not a lot [...]