Knowing your classic movies, even at the age of 24

Classic Eggnog recipe

Ingredients

• 12 eggs, separated
• 1 1/2 cups superfine sugar
• 1 quart whole milk
• 1 1/2 quarts heavy cream
• 3 cups bourbon
• 1/2 cup dark rum
•  2 cups cognac
• Freshly grated nutmeg

Method

1. In a very large bowl, beat egg yolks until thick and pale yellow. Gradually add sugar to yolks. With a wire whisk, beat in milk and 1 quart cream. Add bourbon, rum, and cognac, stirring constantly
2. Just before serving, beat egg whites until stiff. Fold into mixture. Whip remaining 1/2 quart heavy cream until stiff, and fold in. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Try and keep all the ingredients cold. If you have any left over, stick the bowl in the freezer and each it the next day for dessert!
3. Note: Raw eggs should not be used in food prepared for pregnant women, babies, young children, the elderly, or anyone whose health is compromised.

1. It’s a wonderful life (1946)

An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

A must see Christmas movie !

2. Disney’s A christmas carol (2009)

An animated retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Offcourse here are so many remakes of ‘A christmas carol’ you can choose from :)

3. The nightmare before Christmas (1993)

Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn’t quite understand the concept.

My ALL TIME favorite !

4. Elf (2003)

After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.

5. How the Grinch stole Christmas (2000)

Big budget remake of the classic cartoon about a creature intent on stealing Christmas.

The animated movie is just as fun ! :)

6. Meet me in St. Louis (1944)

In the year before the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.

7. The muppets Christmas carol (1992)

The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser’s redemption on Christmas Eve.

So much fun to watch, and I’m a big fan of Michael Cane.

These are just a tiny selection of Christmas movies that i’ve seen. I got kinda sick and tired of seeing ‘The sound of music’ every year ! Still a good Christmas picture, don’t get me wrong !

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

I’ve always been a fan of Stanley Kubricks films. He has made some masterpieces such as The shining, A clockwork orange, spartacus, 2001: a space odyssey, Lolita etc… I never saw “Dr Strangelove” because the story didn’t appeal to me. But if you want to see all classics, you have to (sometimes struggle) see this one as well. I was glad to see Peter Sellers in this film and in multiple roles, great actor!(!!).
If you like movies about war, this one is a must see black comedy ! It offers great actors, story and amazing camera work. We couldn’t expect less of Kubrick.

The dialogues are really long so be prepaired. Trust me you’ll have a laugh !
Although the character of Dr. Strangelove was very funny and the story was solid, this wasn’t my cup of tea.
Have no fear Mr. Kubrick, I still love you and this movie is amazing, just not me !

Plot :

Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, he believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper’s executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake(on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a
message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its
blow-up into an all out nuclear war with the Soviets. Against Turgidson’s wishes, Muffley brings Soviet Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky into the War Room, and get his boss, Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov, on the hot line to inform him of what’s going on. The Americans in the War Room are dismayed to learn that the Soviets have a yet as unannounced Doomsday Device to detonate if any of their key targets are hit. As Ripper, Mandrake and those in the War Room try and work the situation to their end goal, Major T.J. “King” Kong, one of the B-52 bomber pilots, is working on his own agenda of deploying his bomb where ever he can on enemy soil if he can’t make it to his intended target.