This week I visited some old favorites:
Rewatches:
Three Men & A Baby (1987) Tom Selleck, Steve Gutenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis. After 24 years, it is still kinda nice and funny. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094137/
Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen (1998) Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes. Beautiful cinematography. Cate is great. Geoffrey - perfect. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127536/
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Samantha Morton. Even better than No.1. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414055/
It's Complicated (2009) Meryl Streep, Alex Baldwin, Steve Martin. John Krazinski. A favorite from 2009. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230414/
Sex & The City 2 (2010) Sarah Jessica Parker. Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis. I don't care what anyone else thinks, I have fun watching the girls be nuts. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1261945/
New to me:
The Eyes Of Tammy Faye (2000/Doc) Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, Jim Baker, Roe Messner. I couldn't stand the Bakkers on their various shows, but this was interesting. Tammy is ridiculous, but she is serious about it. I actually ended up sort of sorry for her. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233687/
The Fountain (2006) Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weitz, Ellen Burstyn. Strange, confusing film. It made no sense to me. Goes back and forth in time. The various scenes are beautiful, but what does it all mean? Hard to tell. Aronofsky has made a swamp of a film, hard slogging through the muck. Rachel looks luminous! 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414993/
The Fourth Kind (2009) Mila Jovovich, Will Patton, Charlotte Milchard. Story about alien abductions in Alaska, involving a woman whose husband was working with people who think they had been taken away. When he dies, she takes over and the film is about her taping these conversations. Then something happens and she is suspected of causing troubles. Very disturbing film. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220198/
Hereafter (2011) Matt Damon, Cecile De France, McLaren twins. Three people's stories, who have experiences with near death. A woman is caught in a tsunami and when she is finally pulled out is just barely brought back. A twin boy cannot give up wanting to have some contact with his dead brother, and goes to many different charlatans who say they can do it for him. A man who has flashes of visions when he holds the hands of another person, seeing what will or has happened to them. All 3 end up having contact with each other by the end. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212419/
Well, I think I've had my fill of sci/fi for a while. Need to get out some favorite comedies.
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