Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) - This is THE definitive Sherlock Holmes movie. So good, even after all these years.
Bookworm (2024) - a weird little movie with Elijah Wood as an absentee father who suddenly shows up and takes his daughter on an adventure. It's set in New Zealand, so there are some amazing scenes, but yeah, the story was definitely weird. Good weird, but weird nonetheless.
A Month in the Country (1987) - starring a young Colin Firth and young Kenneth Branagh. Plus, Natasha Richardson (who died way too early, in my opinion). It was just a nice movie. Not much to it, but nice. Two men after WWI, struggling with their own horrific memories of war and striving to accomplish their own goals. Set in the beautiful English countryside.
And Then There Were None (1945) - I thought I'd found a later version of this with Oliver Reed that I remembered enjoying, but it ended up being in another language with subtitles, so I searched again and found this. I don't remember ever seeing this one. It was pretty good. It had a bunch of lesser actors I remember from several other old movies (the maid from Rebecca, Uncle Willie from Philadelphia Story, etc.) and Barry Fitzgerald (he was the matchmaker in Quiet Man, among other fine roles). Definitely an enjoyable adaptation.
In the hopper are a WWII movie and a veterinarian movie set in Devonshire, plus we still have a couple Sherlock Holmes movies to watch.
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