First Set

Movie #1  Music concert in Maastricht, Wonderful World, from André  Rieu.

Movie #2  Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp. Unusual, with many strong reviews. But I couldn't spot Johnny D. here: External clips  Must have been after midnight, or was that J.J. Cale?

Movie #3  Happy Feet. Award winning animation, with music and dance and penguins.

Movie #4  The King's Speech, starring Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and many others.

Movie #5  March of the Penguins. Documentary.

Movie #6  Millers Crossing, starring and directed, etc. A heavy and adult gangster classic. External Wikipedia link. Miller%27s_Crossing

Movie #7  Quantum of Solace, a second outing for Daniel Craig as James Bond. External links. A brilliant trailer or two here for a James Bond game First Light overview  First Light game clips  Plus vintage Bond action from Pierce Brosnan

Movie #8  Road to Perdition, starring Tom Hanks and several great actors. External trailer

Movie #9  Sleepless in Seattle. Light-hearted romance, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

Movie #10  Sully - Miracle on the Hudson, starring Tom Hanks.

Second Set

Movie #11  Capone. A gangster classic, starring Ben Gazzara.

Movie #12  Chocolat, starring Juliette Binoche, Judy Dench and Johnny Depp. External trailer for a light romantic comedy.

Movie #13  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, mainly! External trailers. A short trailer .  A longer 4K version

Movie #14  Grease. 1950s based musical, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton John.

Movie #15  Guardians of the Galaxy. Excellent Marvel Studios production, starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and more, with some musical aspects. External. "Trailers for sale or rent. Rooms to let, 50 cents. No phone, no pool, no pets. I ain't got no cigarettes."

Movie #16  King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, starring Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law.

Movie #17  Pretty Woman. Adult comedy, starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. External clip about getting dressed for an opera

Movie #18  The Magnificent Seven. Cowboy classic with Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and others.

Movie #19  Vanity Fair. Historical social drama, which lost some votes for making plot adjustments. Never mind...

Movie #20  West Side Story. Classic gangland musical. Brilliant external dance clip

Third Set

29th September 2026  I finished watching, again, an interesting and sometimes excellent The Bourne Supremacy, starring Matt Damon. With a highly competent director and many bits of quality acting. Occasional screenplay oddities, with some foolish or distracting or time wasting content. The previous Bourne movie also has some but never mind... Overall, however, pretty good results!

I can't say which movie set will include this Supremacy. Not the third one and I have a stack of 10 movies for that, without much Damon material. Assuming that The Bourne Identity comes before Supremacy, well, set five or set six are quite likely to be hosts.

There are some Russian words, spoken early in Supremacy and Jason Bourne visits Moscow much later. I was also there over 30 years ago and do have some slight interest to return before I reach around 80 years old. I had some Russian Language lessons during my time at secondary school. The interest for me was because of quite strong science activities taking place in Russia. Nothing social or political was in my mind.

Movie #21  All That Jazz. A classic and deeply human but also controversial music and dance outing. External clip about some auditions

And a second clip from a movie in a later set here, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and team .  She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2010, for her film and humanitarian work.

Movie #22  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In revealing style, an external baby Harry clip. Later, this humorous home based older Harry clip. And then Harry starts his preparations for developing wizardry

Movie #23  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Movie #24  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. External clip. The plot starts to accelerate in this third Potter movie.

Movie #25  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Movie #26  Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix. Powerful external official trailer

Movie #27  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Excellent review of series aesthetics

Movie #28  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Official preview clip.

Movie #29  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Very interesting finale.

Movie #30  Man of Steel. Excellent and fairly modern Superman overview, starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams and several more. Directed by Zack Snyder.

Fourth Set

Movie #31  Aladdin. A Disney animation classic, from 1992, with some slightly controversial character and graphical issues.

Movie #32  Doctor Strange. Excellent spiritual warfare fiction, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton.

Movie #33  The English Patient, starring Ralph Fiennes, but not as a naughty wizard. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche and others.

Movie #34  The Ghost, starring Ewen McGregor, Pierce Brosnan and others. Directed by Roman Polanski and complimented by critics.

Movie #35  The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. Based on some wartime scientific history.

Movie #36  The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies. Final movie of three, based largely on the book The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, together with some related Tolkien material. Acting as part of a prequel to the classic and much appreciated Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. About the related Hobbit movies part one and part two, I might not have them as shrink-wrapped copies.

Movie #37  Mamma Mia! The Movie. A mildly romantic musical but in life and not on a stage. Music based on songs from ABBA. Numerous stars, including Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth.

Movie #38  The Mayor of Casterbridge. Based on a novel by Thomas Hardy. A BBC social classic, from a seven part series. Almost six hours of running time. I might watch it myself. Currently wrapped...

Movie #39  Ocean's Eleven. A classic heist, in a casino environment. Stars at every table.

Movie #40  The Snowman. Animation from 1982. Based on a book by Raymond Briggs.

Fifth Set

Movie #41  Annie, from 1982. Based on a stage musical about a young orphan girl in New York City.

Movie #42  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Competent Chinese Martial Arts drama, with several stars and winning many awards.

Movie #43  Fast and Furious 7. I am not a member of any AI-based Greek website, which offers reliable commercial guidance on how to use words ending in 'isma' or about how to look or to sound like an acting star from England. The movie director here apparently hid or the producers mislaid a dictionary. And so they all left out an 'h' from car-something, whilst studying and approving numerous drafts of the screenplay.

Movie #44  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. Second excellent Marvel Studio offering.

Movie #45  The Help. Popular and comedyish drama, about some Southern USA writing projects and established social expectations, from a best selling book. Many stars in a large cast and a couple of awards.

Movie #46  Matilda. Odd and slightly controversial comedy fantasy, based on a famous book.

Movie #47  The Queen, starring Helen Mirren. A well-received and critically praised British royal family docudrama.

Movie #48  Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon. Wartime drama.

Movie #49  Spectre, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond.

Movie #50  Wanted. Action thriller, with stars including Angelina Jolie. Controversial but reasonably well-received.

Sixth Set

Movie #51  The Bourne Identity, starring Matt Damon, as a government assassin with amnesia.

Movie #52  Chicago. Outstanding musical starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere and others. See a clip in the #21 report and this puppetry rag

Movie #53  Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. Interesting dystopian science fiction thriller.

Movie #54  The Lady in the Van, starring Maggie Smith. Comedy-drama based on a true story about an almost homeless traveller.

Movie #55  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. About emergency actions to avoid an overwhelming reign of bad magic. Stars and quality awards everywhere. Maybe no wrapped copy of the Fellowship is here but time will clarify.

Movie #56  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The plot starts to deepen and accelerate. Many stars and awards again.

Movie #57  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Peter Jackson as Director and full of stars. Widely considered as genius production work.

Movie #58  Miracle on 34th Street, from 1947. Classic Christmas comedy-drama about Santa Claus, who was working in New York City.

Movie #59  Miracle on 34th Street, from 1994. Classic Christmas comedy-drama about Santa Claus, who was again working in New York City. Some changes were made to the plot from 1947.

Movie #60  Rise of the Planet of the Apes, from 2011. A science fiction action film. Not by any means the only apes related production. And not regarded as close to the best or as close to the worst. One competently made external trailer

Seventh Set  likely The Bourne Supremacy

Movie #61   Before I go to Sleep, starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong. Psychological drama, based on a best-seller book.

Movie #62  The Bodyguard, starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Quality action drama, with extreme personal threats and challenges. Some musical themes.

Movie #63  The Bourne Supremacy, starring Matt Damon. See set three's introduction.

Movie #64  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, from 2008. A deep and human wartime drama. Life seen through various eyes and ages, based on a best-seller book. Controversial on many aspects. Parental Guidance is probably more appropriate than its public 12+ designation.

Movie #65  Eat Pray Love, starring Julia Roberts. [ Draft text: Broad and largely overfocused content. You might love this or hate it or be bored. key topical areas are insular/compartmentalised/plastic ]

Movie #66  Hero. Chinese Martial Arts drama. Well received and critically acclaimed, with many awards.

Movie #67  Memoirs of a Geisha. Competent but controversial Japanese social drama. Some awards.

Movie #68  Oliver Twist. Based, broadly, on a classic story about poverty and crime in Victorian London. Directed by Roman Polanski.

Movie #69  The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Comedy starring Judy Dench, Richard Gere and more.

Movie #70  Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond and Judy Dench.

Eighth Set  likely The Bourne Ultimatum. Extreme Ways is still playing on a DVD. A brilliant movie production. Maybe better movies exist but hard to bring any to mind... 5th October 2026. Now, shortly after a DVD of Star Trek, directed and produced by J.J. Abrams. The titles are still running. What to say, except that it was a brilliant movie? 6th October 2026 update. Time to say more.

Quite straightforward, even if controversial. Roughly two billion people, or slightly more, believe in reincarnation as an aspect of life. The topic is rarely discussed from a scientific perspective and we should be aware, in the context, that animal reincarnation, following that of other life forms, is a most likely cause or the chosen instrument for the evolution of consciousness to human level.

So, J.J. Abrams. Who might he have been before? He is a pretty smart cookie, if that is not any form of criticism. And the answer is William Shakespeare. Didn't you read that, all over the internet? OK, no, you didn't... And currently, who is the latest form of William Blake? Wiki page. No prizes.

Movie #71  The Bourne Ultimatum, starring Matt Damon. A very popular action thriller, with many awards.

Movie #72  The Fast and the Furious. Fast action in cars, starring Vin Diesel and others.

Movie #73  "2 Fast 2 Furious", starring Paul Walker. Liked more by audiences than by critics.

Movie #74  The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. More cars and drama. Popular now with drivers and with many critics, perhaps more than with typical movie watchers.

Movie #75  The Fox and the Child, from 2007. A slow but pretty tale of animals and humans.

Movie #76  High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Popular with audiences and deemed competent by many reviewers. Some awards.

Movie #77  The Hundred-Foot Journey, with stars including Helen Mirren. Light comedy social drama and romance. Well received by audiences and by many critics.

Movie #78  Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, starring Chris Pratt and others. A follow-on fantasy with dinosaurs. Well received by audiences and broadly as competent by critics. Weakness of the screenplay was mentioned.

Movie #79  Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, starring Tom Cruise and many others. Top quality in acting, directing and production. A classy movie.

Movie #80  Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and more. Highly political drama. Well received but some serious distortions of historical accuracy.

Nineth Set  9th October 2026.  I am building nine numbered movie lists and perhaps 89 will be shrink-wrapped items. Over a dozen of those have wrapped extra copies. But don't get lost in the numbers. This is not some mathematical or cosmic plan! I would call this simply an exercise in publicity or entertainment.

I am not under any contract to continue or to distribute prizes. Many excellent films will not be on these nine lists. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 3. A well received and yet sometimes criticised film. A prize for that will be offered by this website. And also there is The Adjustment Bureau. An action drama and romance, starring Matt Damon as a politician and Emily Blunt as a ballet dancer.

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Movie #81  Absolutely Fabulous Series 3, from 1995. A broadly adult BBC comedy series, including  Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley.

Movie #82  Downton Abbey, from 2019. BBC social drama, acclaimed by many and related to the long running television series.

Movie #83  La La Land - musical is coming and none are in set 7.

Movie #84  Les Miserables - musical

Movie #85  My Fair Lady - musical

Movie #86  The Rock - action is coming

Movie #87  Shooter - action

Movie #88  The Sting, from 1974. Comedy gangland drama, starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

Movie #89  The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones. About the life of top scientist Stephen Hawking. Well received by many critics and winning many awards, despite frequent lapses into historical inaccuracy.

Movie #90  Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine and others. Unsure whether or not I have seen this film but I will describe it as having an ensemble cast. A highly praised and award winning fantasy action movie.

Tenth Set  17th October 2026. Ten more titles are coming, to make 100, including Jurassic World, plus a comedy classic Breakfast at Tiffany's and the excellent Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. I haven't seen that Jurassic film.

Movie #91  The Book Thief, starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson and Sophie Nélisse.

92 Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Audrey Hepburn.  93 Brief Encounter.  94 Closer, with stars including Julia Roberts and Jude Law. 95 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, including Gary Oldman and Andy Serkis.  96 Jurassic World  97 The Lady Eve. A classic comedy, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.  98 No Time to Die, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond.  99 Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.

Movie #100  The Snow Queen. Produced by the BBC, from a classic book by Hans Christian Andersen.

Eleventh Set  5th November 2026. Ten more titles are coming, to make 110, featuring top stars in droves and a light romantic comedy from the fifties, It Happened to Jane, with a youngish Doris Day and youngish Jack Lemmon. I haven't seen six of these films, including The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It won many awards but is said to be a long, grueling and sometimes bloody survival drama.

Movie #101  External trailer. The Bucket List ,  starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. A sad old age comedy drama.

Movie #102  External trailer. Constantine ,  starring Keanu Reeves. A spooky exorcist horror. I saw it too long ago to remember much.

Movie #103  The Contender,  with stars including Gary Oldman and Joan Allen. A solid and engaging political thriller. Well received but some aspects may have become a bit dated.

103 The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen.  104 Closer, with stars including Julia Roberts and Jude Law. 95 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, including Gary Oldman and Andy Serkis.  96 Jurassic World  97 The Lady Eve. A classic comedy, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.  98 No Time to Die, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond.  99 Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.

Movie #110  The Snow Queen. Produced by the BBC, from a classic book by Hans Christian Andersen.    

Eleventh set details to be revised...

Twelfth Set  7th November 2026. Some more titles are coming, hopefully to make 120. 

Movie #111  Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Complex and long pirate romp. Is it an allegory to decades of Leicestershire politics and to the potentially dangerous movements of Mandrakes ? Some more details are on the Home page.

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Online Shorts

I just watched a highly competent ITV episode of Sherlock Holmes, from many years ago and roughly 50 minutes long. On this external link: The Dancing Men .  And a tiny content connection or relationship can be found to Movie #52, as defined above.

And on another day, the next episode. It needs some patience. Not a speedy story but well made: The Naval Treaty . And then the third presented here. Slow, active and dramatic, in an interesting mixture: The Solitary Cyclist . Finally a disturbing and dangerous story: The Speckled Band .  

The next link is to an imaginative but unpredictable information and security series, arguably surreal and Orwellian, from the 1960s. Episode one external: The Prisoner #1 , starring Patrick McGoohan. Did anyone call Patrick? Maybe Emily did. An off track Vogue reference. And The Prisoner #3 , about drugged dreams. The series ended with the episode called Fall Out and the best part of that is, perhaps, the last two minutes, well almost two.

Competitions  18th October 2026 draft. These details will be updated and moved to another page later.

Individual  #1  There will be twelve named videos as possible prizes. Depending on the response, in terms of quality and quantity, there will most likely be four or five DVDs awarded as prizes. In my mind, I speculate on having around 120 competition entrants.

Movie I#1  Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Not exactly a Shakespeare screenplay or a Marvel Studios or J.J. Abrams quality production. But a serial fun romp, with busy action.

Movie I#2  Avatar. A 'modern classic', directed by James Cameron. Aliens are over there.

3  James Bond: Die Another Day, with Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry.  4  James Bond: Quantum of Solace, starring Daniel Craig.  7  Arrival, starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. Aliens are here now.  8  The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, being the first part of a three movie set.  11  High Society, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra.  12  The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews.

Movie I#5  Man on Fire, starring Denzel Washington. Lots of bullets and bodies and some hearts are working there.

Movie I#6  Taken, starring Liam Neeson. Mainly bullets and bodies.

Mobie I#9  Mary Poppins, with Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. A classic, including music, dance and comedy. Also with animation and kite flying.

Movie I#10  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Dark times and a civil war inside wizardry.

Unwrapped Sets

Movie U#1  The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. Science, computing and history based second world war movie, where we hear: "Enigma is an extremely well-designed machine. Our problem is that we're only using men to try to beat it. What if only a machine can defeat another machine?"

But then here is a quotation on this website's home page: "The nature of life is complex and if there is a plan for us humans, it is rather an evasive one. Experimentation and awareness and good judgement are all needed. Perhaps a measure of good fortune also, in the short term." So, I suggest in the style of Turing, that if life and evolution follow some sort of plan, ordinary men will surely miss the key points and they might waste millions of years on behalf of humanity. Ordinary needs to be adjusted and maybe cancelled all together.

Going back thousands of years, as I understand, very many people in China were not agnostics or atheists but that has changed since those times. And in India there were a majority of religious people and some very creative or inspired ones there tried to give out explanations and advice. But it achieved little, except a wide range of lifestyle diversions and conflicting theories.

Gautama Buddha, who was born a prince and so had power to investigate and to seek guidance, tried to bring people's attention away from established rituals and unproven theories. He tried to take them towards a concrete process of evolution in consciousness. Unfortunately he did not succeed and maybe some of his advice had been faulty. All sorts of Buddhist philosophy variants popped up over centuries. I believe their public viewpoints misrepresented reality and lacked wisely researched practical validity. For example, modern Buddhists mainly believe that there is no God or no overarching life plan for humanity. But I do NOT believe that these were both views expressed by Lord Buddha.

Next, or at least later, Jesus Christ tried to guide mankind and to describe some stages of human spiritual awareness or cosmic planning. A religion was started after his apparent death and several variants appeared over time. But these all substantially followed people who had never met Christ. They formed hierarchically organised groups, with more or less political style controls. And such things had not been proposed and described by Christ himself.

Later still, Mohammed/Muhammad became an originator of the religion of Islam. But after his death there was a major community split, with opposed priorities. His daughter and his son-in-law and their own son became treated as in charge of a minority organisation, so not really to be trusted.

After some hundreds of years Christians started killing their apparent spiritual opponents. After some hundreds of years Muslims started killing their apparent spiritual opponents. And the Hindus and Buddhists and Chinese had achieved little or no practical progress in the evolution of human consciousness. Muslims started killing Hindus in India and then into the fray stepped Guru Nanak.

11th October 2026. I am watching again The Avengers Assemble. Must be one of the best movies ever made but I haven't any reliable Movie Top Ten list to hand or a Top Twenty. It is surely included there somewhere.

And Loki, a naughty character from Asgard, has some very interesting words, during a visit to the headquarters of SHIELD:

Fury: We have no quarrel with your people.

Loki: An ant has no quarrel with a boot.
Fury: You plannin' to step on us?
Loki: I come with glad tidings, of a world made free.
Fury: Free from what?
Loki: Freedom. Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart... you will know peace.

Very controversial but who would disagree with Loki? A Buddhist or a mullah or a priest. I am confident that most people in those roles would reject the claim made about a lie but perhaps for different reasons. And there would be different types of Buddhists and different types of priests, including Christian and Hindu. However, the nature of life and its purpose are both controversial and from a scientific viewpoint they are also unproven.

12th October 2026. Overall the Avengers movie, with its UK title version given above here, has good acting and direction and production. One quote from it, by Tony Stark, will form part of the first DVD competiton for individuals. And Nemo's dad and Dory will be in there too. Plus a Tom Hanks comedy romance reference and a galactic reference, mildly connected with petunias. Finally, there will be a quite distant connection between some Jason Bourne movies, starring Matt Damon, and a well known old singer from the UK. So a highly unusual final competition part and perhaps extremely challenging. It might just act as a tiebreaker when several people seem to deserve a prize.

I have started watching again Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Brilliant! Some clever people are working in and with Marvel Studios.

29th October 2026  Well, the Matt Damon connection is likely to be replaced by a Star Trek movie connection.