A Life Of Her Own (1950) Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell, Louis Calhern, Ann Dvorak. A remake of 1939s "When Tomorrow Comes", is a story of a young woman from Kansas, who heads to NYC to find fame and fortune as a model. Which she does and then falls for a visiting copper mine owner from Montana. Complications ensue and Lana suffers, Milland suffers, but the best suffering is by Dvorak, in one of her last roles. The original story " A Modern Cinderella" was by James M. Cain, who also wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce. Lana wears beautiful '50s fashions and looks great, at least to me. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042677/
Cop Out (2010) Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan. Seann William Scott. Supposed to be a comedy but is not funny. Cop partners suspended for 30 days for something or other are taking a very rare baseball card owned by one to have it appraised so he can sell it to give his daughter a big wedding. Naturally there is a holdup and the card is taken with the rest of the loot. Much blundering around trying to get it back. Scott is stuck in some scenes annoying everyone - and the audience - repeating every word said by his target. By the end I was in a stupor. Don't encourage these people! 4/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1385867/
The American (2010) George Clooney. Really slow and mostly uninteresting story, to me anyway, of an assassin and his troubles. I could not relate to the character so it had nothing to hang on to. The cinematography of villages in the sun and cars on twisty roads, were pretty. That was it. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440728/
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