Exhausted.  Totally exhausted yesterday.  Crawled into bed at 3 pm after flying in from out of town.  Of the past 31 days, I’ve been out of town for 21 of them and I just needed to lay down on my own cold sheets…and, as it turns out, stream War Games ( ! ) on my laptop.  Perfect Tonic.  Hadn’t seen the film in years.  A Disney version of a thriller, but the storytelling is top, top notch. Other than the hyperbole, the story has no holes. The building of tension ratchets in the right places and takes you on a ride. And while looking at it now, so much of it seems endearingly quaint – you’ll let yourself buy into it because the director deliveres it textbook perfect.  I watched it to help me sleep, and it really surprised me.

Only streaming until Oct. 1.  (In case you need to turn your mind off for a couple of hours.)

I saw that it was listed on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Thrills.  Here you go….

Hmmmm….interesting….but some of this I just can’t get behind.  Fatal Attraction and The Shining are less intense than The Maltese Falcon and Lawrence of Arabia?  Come on.  Let’s be objective here: no they’re not.