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Alfred Hitchcock double bill. I Confess (1953) The Wrong Man (1956) A true double bill as the two films compliment each other very well. Both are dark, serious and distinctly noirish. Both have excellent b&w photography. Both are about a man mistakenly accused of a crime. Both have very strong male leads. Both have religious touches, very unusual for Hitchcock. Both have very moody location photography, especially I Confess. Neither have any trace of Hitchcock's sardonic humour.

You can make it using regular tea plus one clove, one smashed cardomon and a small piece of cinnamon. Chai also needs sugar. I don't normally take sugar but chai is not really chai without it. Brown sugar is best.

Alf Larkin Steve Swallow Robin Wright

Mickey Rooney Rooney Mara Wayne Rooney

Great. I saw it on the big screen when it was released. The one I'd most like to see at the cinema is Lawrence Of Arabia. Fat chance of that in dumbed down Tokyo. I went for an afternoon stroll through the ShinOkubo district near Shinuku. Dismayed to see that the old Toho cinema, where I twice saw Eyes Wide Shut, is now a supermarket. Shin Okubo

Stanley Kubrick double bill. Barry Lyndon (1975) The Shining (1980)

Thank you so much for your greetings, chaps. I've now hit the big 70 btw

Money Monster - Jodie Foster (2016) Looks promising on paper but is just fair to middling, Lacks grit, conviction and teeth.

John Garfield Chauncey Gardiner Paddy Chayefsky

Salty Dog Pepper Adams Mean Mr Mustard

Condoleezza Rice Warren Oates Dennis Wheatley

Taro Aso One in a long string of corrupt and useless Japanese pms. Taro Daniel Dan Dare & Digby

David Lean double bill. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) A Passage To India (1984)

Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands Brian Hyland Peaky Blinders

Lawrence Of Arabia Gordon Of Khartoum Slim Of Burma

Dinner With Andre Babette's Feast Breakfast With The Beatles

David Mamet double bill. House Of Games (1987) Things Change (1988)

The Great McGinty The Great Waldo Pepper The Great Dictator

Michael Mann double bill. The Insider (1999) Heat (1995)

Hayfa Dolla Baht Simpson James Wong Howe

Len Fairclough Ken Barlough Elsie Tanner

Young Rascals Charlie Drake Noel Coward

Barnes Wallis Guy Gibson Master Blaster

Ditto the last post. 38C at the moment.

Anthony Mann double bill. T Men (1947) The Furies (1950) One of his best.