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Rockford, Iowa
Saturday, December 31, 2022
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Monday, December 26, 2022
My Favorite Movies by Troy Thomas
This is a list of my favorite movies. Most of the movies are from my childhood, growing up in Newton, Iowa watching channel 13 the noon time movie after the Floppy Show. Most of the movies are from the 1960s and 70s. I also picked up some great shows from the BBC on Iowa public television. At the time there were only 4 channels to view.
It's a Wonderful Life / Fort Apache the Bronx
Apocalypse Now / Star Wars
Kid Blue / Bringing out the Dead
Super Cops 1970s / Taxi Driver
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean / Slap Shot
The Verdict / Nobodys Fool / Harry and Son
The Drowning Pool / Road to Perdition
Serpico / And Justice For All / Easy Rider
Lawrence of Arabia / Doctor Zhivago / Casablanca
The Bridge on the River Kwai / The Maltese Falcon
The African Queen / Sabrina with Bogart / Roman Holiday
The Big Country / The Guns of Navarone
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison / Patton / Bulworth
The Big Sleep with Robert Mitchum / Miracle on 34th Street
The Long Goodbye with Elliot Gould / Freebie and the Bean
Catch 22 / Slaughter House Five / The Thief
Cinderella Liberty / Roller Ball / Sleeper / Gattaca
Alien / Annie Hall / The Thing with Kurt Russel
Escape from New York / Used Cars / Grindhouse / Dark Blue
Guardians of the Galaxy / The Dirty Dozen / Kelly's Heroes
Irma La Douce / Some Like it Hot / The Graduate
Mister Roberts / Missing / Platoon / The Doors
Dr. Strangelove / Spartacus / 2001 A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange / One Eyed Jacks / China Town
Mutiny on the Bounty with Brando / Last Tango in Paris
The Missouri Breaks / The Last Detail / The Shining / Garp
Good Morning Vietnam / Tootsie / Little Big Man
A Man Called Horse / The Molly Maguires / Wild Geese
Man in the Wilderness / Smillas Sense of Snow / Steelyard Blues
King of Hearts 1966 / The Train with Burt Lancaster
Monty Python Series / Shogun with Richard Chamberlain
The Dirty Dozen / American Beauty / Bad Day at Black Rock
The Wild Bunch / Network / The Third Man / Woodstock
Red Rock West / Bringing Up Baby / Racing with the Moon
Barbarosa / Magnificent Seven / His girl Friday / Untamed Heart
Young Frankenstein / Blazing Saddles / Breaking Away
My Bodyguard / A Little Romance / Emerald Forest / Heathers
Pump up the Volume / Name of the Rose / Beetle Juice
Stranger Things / Donnie Darko / The Mutant Chronicles
Game of Thrones / Silent Running / Coming Home
Support Your Local Sheriff / The Great Escape / The Road Warrior
The Year of Living Dangerously / Payback / Air America
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / Dune with David Lynch/ V for Vendetta
Dune Sci Fy Channel / Wide Sargasso Sea / The Lover 1992
The Paper / Time Bandits / Brazil / Barton Fink / Serenity
Monty Pythons the Meaning of Life / The Big Lebowski
Millers Crossing / The Chronicles of Riddick / I Claudius BBC
Caligula 1979 / The Hospital with George C Scott / Starman
Quest for fire / Robin Hood with Eroll Flynn / Altered States
Edge of Darkness British Series 1985 / Sniper / The Terminator
Smileys People wit Alec Guiness / The Good, the Bad, The Ugly
Roger and Me / Battle Beyond the Stars / Wonder boys
All Quiet on the Western Front with Thomas / Live and Let Die
Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon / Fahrenheit 451 1966
The Landlord / Bad Company with Jeff Bridges / Rancho Deluxe
Blue Velvet / North Dallas Forty / Blade Runner / Cooley High
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy BBC / Joe vs the Volcano
The Dogs of War / How the Grinch Stole Christmas 1966
Sin City / Dark City / The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
Orlando Orlando / Kill Bill / Kill Bill 2 / War of the Worlds 1953
Caddyshack / Blues Brothers / Animal House / Paper Moon
Edge of Tomorrow / Mother Juggs and Speed / Pink Floyd the Wall
Quadrophenia / Band of Brothers HBO / A Boy and his Dog
Flesh Gordon / Flash Gordon with Queen / DOA 1950
Ready Player One / Avatar / Shane / The Breakfast Club
Never Cry Wolf / American Graffiti 1 and 2 / Spinal Tap
An American Werewolf in London / Prophecy / Dead Zone
The Girl Most Likely to with Stockard Channing / Nevada Smith
Earth girls are Easy / The Fifth Element / Amadeus / High Noon
The Man from Snowy River / Warriors / 3:10 to Yuma Glenn Ford
Conan the Barbarian / Meatballs / For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943
The Fountainhead 1949 / Sullivans Travels 1941 / Angel Heart
Minority Report / Total Recall with Schwartzenegger / Lucy
Vacation / Stripes / Cat People / Ran / Bugsy Malone / Zardoz
The Island of Dr. Moreau with Micheal York / Firefly Series
Clerks / Watchmen / Sharps Rifles BBC series / Das Boot
Legion with Paul Bettany / Election / Priest with Paul Bettany
The Last Kingdom Netflix Series / Raiders of the Lost Arc
Kung Fu Hustle / Romancing the Stone / Naked Lunch Cronenberg
Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels / Hidalgo / Zulu / Barfly
Summer of 42 with Jennifer Oneil / Office Space / Eating Raoul
Midnight Run / The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds / Matewan
Bad Boys with Sean Penn / Robocop with Peter Weller /
Paris Texas / Clear and Present danger / Five Corners / Ben Hur
Get a Life with Chris Elliot / Emperor of the North /
The Quiet Man with John Wayne / The Wrestler 2008
Magic city Series / Under Fire with Nick Nolte / Mortal Engines
Death Race 2000 with David Carradine / Pascali's Island
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with Kirk Douglas /
The Good Life Series 1975 to 1978 / A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Bad News Bears with Walter Matheuw
Saturday, December 17, 2022
Kellog Wildlife Area by Artist Troy Richard Thomas
Kellog, Iowa
The Kellog Wildlife Area is just off highway 6. I have been going here since the 70's hiking and picking blackberries.
Friday, December 9, 2022
Saturday, December 3, 2022
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