Our last DVDs from zip.ca

Aidan Quinn to his misbehaving son: "I know that beneath it all you're a good boy.  But I have to teach you to be a good man!"--THE BOOK OF DANIEL

On Saturday I ended our zip.ca subscription. (This Tuesday would have been the start of a new month of shipments.)  They've sent us over 1600 discs over the past nine years, but the well's almost dry. We got seven more working days to return our remaining DVDs.  As of now, there's only one left to send.

One of our last discs was some episodes from the TV series THE BOOK OF DANIEL.  It was a short-lived but interesting show with Aidan Quinn as an Episcopalian priest and family man in upstate New York.  Curiously, in some scenes he'd converse with a rather laid-back Jesus Christ, sort of like the scenes in SIX FEET UNDER where David talked to dead people.

Some of the plotlines are a bit over the top, but the writing is often clever.  I like Quinn in this kind of role.  It's a shame that it got cancelled early:  I got curious about what would happen next.  Today I returned that disc, leaving just one more.

Our last disc is of two British movies from the 1930s starring the great Afro-American singer-actor Paul Robeson.  Today we saw SONG OF FREEDOM, with Robeson as a dock worker who becomes an opera singer, then finds out through an heirloom pendant that he's descended from a queen on an island off the African coast.  So he moves to that island and vies with the local witch doctors to win his people over to modern enlightenment.  As with most of his movies, he has some nice songs.

That DVD has a second Robeson vehicle titled BIG FELLA.  After we see it tomorrow, we'll return it and be finished with Zip.