Considering my genre, it’s natural for me to watch Westerns! Here are just a few of my favorites for you to check out.
Rio Bravo: John Wayne and Dean Martin defend the town from a corrupt rancher. Features a very young Ricky Nelson.
The Sacketts: based on Louis L’Amour’s books and starring Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, and Jeff Osterhage. There’s another Elliott/Selleck/L’Amour story called The Shadow Riders, which is also very good.
El Dorado: another version of Rio Bravo actually, with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan fighting evil Ed Asner.
Heck, I’ll watch almost anything with John Wayne in it!
Tombstone: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton as the Earps and Doc Holliday.
The Magnificent Seven: Seven gunslingers come to the aid of a Mexican village.
Dances with Wolves: Kevin Costner and Graham Greene in the story of a Civil War soldier learning about the Lakota tribe.
And for sheer silliness…
Blazing Saddles: Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder try to save the town of Rock Ridge from corrupt Harvey Korman.
I’m a sucker for sappy Christmas movies, and they almost always start showing them in November. I spend pretty much two months watching these things!
Here are some of my favorites:
- A Christmas Carol – in pretty much any adaptation
- One Magic Christmas – cowboy angels… how much better does it get?
- The Christmas Card – a Hallmark classic
- The Gathering – Ed Asner as a crusty old goat? Who knew?
- The classic cartoons: Rudolph, Frosty, Peanuts… I’m a cartoon fan
- The Santa Clause trio – especially Chance look-alike Bernard the elf
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Most of the Hallmark movies, actually
And HERE is a list of the Top 100 Christmas Movies of all time – or you can make up your own list!
Here are a few of my favorites to start the New Year off. They’re in alphabetical order because I can’t really decide which are my ultimate favorites among them.
Books:
- Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters
- Almost anything by Andre Norton
- Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
- Almost anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Holmes/Russell series by Laurie R. King
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Illusions by Richard Bach
- Kate Shugak series by Dana Stabenow
- Almost anything by Louis L’Amour
- Longmire series by Craig Johnson
- Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman
- The People series by Zenna Henderson
- Spenser series by Robert B. Parker
- Time Enough for Love/Lazarus Long series by Robert Heinlein
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
Movies/TV: