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Tonight has been an exercise in nostalgia. Being only in my 30's, this doesn't count for much, but vivid memories of secondary school (or at the least, English classes) are replayed.

Gillian has been filling the queue on our postal DVD subscription with movies from the IMDB top 250 (#41). There are a few sitting on the bench at the moment - Chocolat, some movie about Sinatra, and the 1962 version of To Kill A Mockingbird which won Gregory Peck a Best Actor Oscar award (and for which the movie in general picked up 3 out of 10 nominations)

It's a powerful piece of drama, even after nearly 25 years and one of the two great courtroom dramas from the 60's I can think of (the other being Inherit the Earth). It's not a film that falls into the "feelgood" movie category, but is absolutely worth a watch (after all, 40,000 people arriving at an average score of 8.5/10 can't all be wrong, can they?)