"Tuesdays with Morrie" (1999) NR

Based on Mitch Albom's nonfiction best-seller, this film begins as Morrie (Jack Lemmon) collapses and is subsequently diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease. Then, it's a quick cut to Mitch's (Hank Azaria) hectic life as a sports columnist cum television host and his long-term relationship. When Mitch learns his beloved professor is dying, he reconnects with his mentor and learns from him all over again -- this time, about life.

This is a most touching and wonderfully tender story. Morrie is a sweet lovable character who ends up making a huge impact on Mitch's life and changes it greatly. I have watched this film twice now and will not tire of it.

"The Madness of King George" (1994) PG-13

The dementia of King George III (Nigel Hawthorne) -- the English monarch who lost the war to keep the American colonies -- sets into motion a flurry of political and familial treachery to gain power. Based on Alan Bennett's play, the film provides insight into the primitive medical practices of the time and co-stars Ian Holm, Helen Mirren, Rupert Graves and Rupert Everett. Hawthorne and Mirren received Oscar nominations for their performances.

I found this a very interesting, shocking and amusing movie. I was so inquisitive of the real nature of the kings illness, as portrayed in this movie, that I did a Google search to read up on him. Yes, I found it to be true.

"24" (TV series) TV-14

Follow 24 hours in the life of federal counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). Taken together, the 24 hour-long episodes track one full day (from midnight to midnight) in Jack's hectic day, using split screens and a real-time clock to tell a tense, interweaving story about Bauer, his wife and daughter, a presidential candidate targeted for assassination, terror attacks striking cities across the U.S. , terrorists threatening to release a deadly virus in L.A., and more exciting plots.

This is another TV series that I am hooked on. I rent these from Netflix. This is a very exciting and good show. It is extremely well done, using split screens that adds a lot to the viewing.

"House, M.D." (TV series) NR

Fox television's hit hospital drama stars Hugh Laurie as bumptious Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant diagnostician with a brutal bedside manner. Along with his handpicked team of specialists -- including neurologist Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), immunologist Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) and oncologist James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) -- House looks to remedy obscure medical disorders ... even though he loathes his patients.

I have began to rent each of these episodes from Netflix. I just LOVE them. For me, it is a show that I am hooked on and can't wait for each disc to come in the mail. Dr. House is hilarious. True, sometimes he can be a little rank...but even that is funny.