All of that is rather complex, so I'm going to cop out by listing films I've watched today, all of which I saw on TV, mainly movie channels:
Marie Antoinette (1938)~Watch this instead of the anachronistic recent version! It definitely holds up quite well.
Disappearance~I've watched this a number of times, and it still fascinates me. I swear that next time I will videotape it. You'd expect it to run on the Sci Fi Channel, not Lifetime, as it is sci fi/horror about a creepy ghost town and the nearby town that shares its secret. It's strange to see Susan Dey and Harry Hamlin portraying tired-looking parents.
The Reaping~This is on On Demand for free thank goodness because I wouldn't have wanted to pay for this! Hillary might have won two Oscars, but this made me think that she owes the Academy an apology. Of course, she isn't the first Oscar winner to pick some poor projects. Cuba Gooding, Jr., excels at it. If I want the Plagues of Egypt, I'd rather what "The Mummy"!
A Majority of One~This truly surprised me that it's so good! Rosalind Russell is TCM's Star of the Month, and she co-stars in this one with Alec Guinness (better known as Obi-Wan Kenobi). I hadn't seen this since I was very young, undoubtedly on TV because I thought it was b&w. We didn't have color television till about 1968. The two are wonderful, even if they're cast drastically against type. So much was shown about Japanese culture, and Americans were shown as being willing to learn instead of the usual portrayal of them riding roughshod through a foreign country. I want to see this one again!
The Wisdom of Crocodiles~It's a different sort of vampire Jude Law portrays. I hadn't watched it for a very long time and actually had taped over it; thus, I was happy that I decided to tape it tonight. There's very little bloodshed, and it almost seems like a simple film about a relationship. It reminded me of "Dance of the Damned", starring Cyril O'Reilly as another rather civilized vampire.