... but The Red Shoes when I'm ill is especially great.

However what I usually do is watch gory horror films as the FPO hates them and doesn't let me watch them when she's in. If I'm ill and she's at work then its Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre time!

Alistair Sim and Terry-Thomas.

That's really all you need to take the mind off.

The tennis match scene with T-T and Ian Carmichael. Try saying 'Hard Cheese' in the normal way after you've seen it. You can't.

the box set with Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid and The Wild Bunch

During a recent bout of man flu I got through 12 episodes of Battlestar Galactica, the first two Gavin and Stacey series and some Family Guy.

If I'm feverish I tend to lose concentration over a film length period, so the smaller episodes are easier to manage. Plus if I fall asleep it's easier to find what I've missed!!!

The documentary about the U.S. spelling bee competition is great fun.

You genuinely can't beat these two in feelgood factor. Not chick flicks. Not overly emotional. Good story. Quite hilarious in places. Joe Pesci. Random violence.

What more could you want?

when I was sick last week, I seem to have watched

Hell Drivers
Kind Hearts And Coronets
The Right Stuff
Ice Cold In Alex

For me it's:

Jaws
Lawrence of Arabia
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Ghostbusters, or
Back To The Future

Mmmm, I'm sure that's a slight sniffle developing....

...I watched all three Back to the Future movies back to back. And had a glorious few hours away from my man-flu.

I was discussing BTTF the other day and realised that if someone today went back in time as far as Marty McFly did, they'd wind up appearing shortly before the first film came out. Which is rather scary. Almost makes me want to see a 2015 remake, just to see how they'd riff on the first film. Almost - obviously this would be sacrilege.

Columbo. Every time.....

Got to be the original Italian Job.

Fave moment? - No it's not "You're only meant to blow the bladdy doors of!", or the guy (Arthur?) grabbing the chicken leg or the tiger/machine gun gag or Simon Dee's cameo or the ever-superb Irene Handl. It's not Noel Coward revelling in the gang's success, it's not even the whole getaway sequence.

It's the look on Benny Hill's face when he sees the "gift" that Charlie Croker and Camp Freddie have brought for him. Priceless. I'm feeling a bit ropey right now, may have to indulge.

Guarenteed to perk you up
Yes, we've seen them before, know all the jokes, blah blah blah.
But, it makes me feel better
(Actually, don't even need to be ill)

This is odd but i vividly remember being off school and watching the song remains the same four times in a row on video...probably the last time I watched the whole thing.

How Percy must have felt between takes standing there with his toy sword with everyone in the crew thinking 'This was all your idea then?'

Father Ted
The Thick Of It
Black Books

Ladykillers, Mouse That Roared, Wrong Arm Of The Law, Pink Panther(s) ?

Since he came up above in the thread, I made a mistake and got an old St Trinian's out the other day - not an Alistair Sim one, but that had aged very badly. Unwatchable. I must have been very young when I saw it.

... but she refuses to come around.

and hope that you've recovered before you reach part III