One above average, then downhill------

On FMC:

Without A Trace (1983) Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsh, Stockard Channing. A parents worse nightmare. Your 6 year old is off to walk down the block to his ride to school. He never gets back home. Film follows the mother, and the detective who investigates and becomes emotionally involved in finding the child. Nelligan is very good as the distraught but determined mother. Hirsh, never better as the cop. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086593/combined

All On Starz free weekend:

Frantic (1988) Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, Betty Buckley. So an American doctor and his wife get in a cab, after an all nght flight to Paris for a medical conference. They check into their upscale hotel, get to their room to get cleaned up, have a meal and rest, before his evening speech at the conference. Except while he is in the shower, we see through the steamy glass, she gets a phone call and yells something at him, and goes out of sight of the shower door. When he is having coffee, he realizes she has been gone too long and starts phoning the desk and then dresses and looks all through the hotel with the staff. So far, so good. He tries to work with the Paris police and fills out reports. But they are not sufficiently concerned and he starts out on his own. As he follows small clues to find out what happened, it gets more and more into the realm of a nightmare. Last part of the film completely looses credibility. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095174/combined

Hollywood Homicide (2003) Harrison Ford, Josh Harnett, Lena Olin. Harrison, my friend, what have you done? This is a mess of a story. He plays a detective who is moonlighting as a real estate broker. His new partner has decided he really wants to be an actor. Oh, and he is also some kind of exercise guru. Their case is a multiple killing in a recording studio among hip-hop musicians. Got all that? That's the problem. Between quirky characters, car chases, foot chases over ta-llllll buildings in a single bound, and in jokes, nothing makes much sense. And we don't care by the end anyway! 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329717/combined

Easy Virtue 2008) Jessica Biel, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Barnes. Noel Coward play about upper class Brits who have a new American bride of the heir to the estate, descend on them. Thomas, as the Grande Dame is icy and hateful. Beil, beautiful and high spirited. They are a battling duo, and Firth is magnificent as the burnt out WWI master of the estate, who doesn't give a sh--. My kind of film. Loved it! 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808244/combined

Julie & Julia (2009) Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci. Previously watched and reviewed here. Love it. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135503/combined

The Ugly Truth (2009) Gerard Butler, Kathryn Heigl. Another rewatch. Beautiful people. Enjoy watching them. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1142988/combined

Cool days and nights. Such a relief after the long scortching days of the last month. And Halloween just around the corner!