Three jewels; 3 lumps of coal

Night & Day (1946) TCM. Cary Grant, Alexsis Smith, Monty Wooley. Awful flim "based on the life of Cole Porter." I watch it only for the music. The songs are wonderful. The actors are tedious. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038776/

Tales Of Hoffman (1951) TCM. Moira Shearer. Glorious. Watched it last month and now in the month of Academy Award winners on TCM. Complete title is "Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann". made in the UK by the great Powell & Pressburger. Lavish and ravishingly beautiful - but you have to like the music, which I do. The doll dance, and the Barcarole are some of the best filmed musical interludes ever. One point off for the last segment not being as great as the rest of the film. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044103/

Roman Holiday (1953) Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert. The Princess excapes for a day of fun in Rome with a reporter and photographer, only she doesn't know who they are. Great William Wyler film, every shot nearly perfect. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046250/

Out Of Sight (1998) Jennifer Lopez, George Clooney, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn, Don Cheadle, Albert Brooks, and Viola Davis. Is that a great cast, or what? And they knock it out of the park. Jen is an FBI agent; Clooney a bank robber; Ving his partner who has to "call his sister" after every event; Brooks, the rich guy they are robbing; Cheadle a former convict who wants the loot and spends time upgrading his wardrobe during the robbery; Zahn, a spaced out minor theif 'helping' the boys, but Jen keeps ruining it for him; and this years Oscar nominee, Viola Davis in a small role as a source for Lopez's agent to find crooks. Director Soderbergh keeps all the parts perking along to make a wonderful brew. A great pleasure. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120780/

Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo. Awful continuation of a sappy story that was only mildly amusing in the first film. Only for the little tweens - everyone else forgedabotit. The costumes and scenery are pretty. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368933/

Thinks We Lost In The Fire (2007) Halle Barry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchony. Very mixed up story of a woman whose loving husband is killed in a head on car accident. His best friend is a drug addict, who the wife invites to move in to the garage to live. (?) Then after a while she makes him leave - she's jealous cause the kids are liking him too much. (?) Then she goes and gets him after he has gone back to drugs after being clean all the time he was living with her before. (?) We get to see his withdrawal suffering. Goody. (?) Then he moves out again, to try to make it on his own. The woman and her kids are happy about this. (?) I think! 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469623/

The weather has moderated to light jacket temps, so that is a blessing. Soon daffodils with be coming up. Until then, watching a few movies fills the bill.