ENCORES:
Scaramouche (1952) Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Farrer. Swords and derring do as a troupe of actors hide the rogue looking for his roots in the France of Marie Antoinette. Fun for a hot afternoon when your brain is fried. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045125/combined
Interrupted Melody (1955) Eleanor Parker, Glenn Ford, Roger Moore. Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence's life from the time she won a competition and went to Europe to study, through her world wide success, marriage and horrible bout with polio. Parkers favorite film. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048210/combined
Queen Bee (1955) Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland, Lucy Marlow. Joan at her nasty best, being mean and cunning. She hooks a rich southern gent and stings her way into the lives of the family members. Nice cousin arrives and things start to go wrong. Top cast in a gothic tale. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048527/combined
The Killer (Dip huet seung hung 1989) Chow Yun Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh. John Woo wrote and directed the great Chow in this classic Hong Kong action film. A symphony of violence. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097202/combined
Primal Fear (1996) Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, Alfre Woodard. Courtroom drame at its best. Norton's star making performance is still riveting. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117381/combined
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Colm Meany, Leslie Bibb, Viola Davis. A brilliant engineer witnesses his wife and daughter brutally murdered by two burglars. The assistant district attorney in charge of the case makes a deal with one murderer for a few years in prison, to get a death sentence for the other. That makes the victim spend ten years of plotting and planning to get his family justice. He makes both criminals have violent and bloody deaths, one on death row and the other out now, by capturing and torturing and killing him in a horrible way. Then he goes to work on the justice system and takes out each person that did not get his family justice. By the time he has murdered the judge, the target of his revenge finally underestands when Clyde tells him "if you had tried and failed to bring both murderers to justice, I would have understood, but you didn't try. You did what was best for you and your career." The last scene of Nick with his wife at their daughters recital you see a man who has finally understood what he has done. Fine cast in a good revenge film. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1197624/combined
The Bounty Hunter (2010) Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, Christine Baransky. Divorced couple are on opposite sides - he as the bounty hunter, she as the arrested skipped on-her-bond reporter - and their road trip with him trying to get her back to jail so he can collect his $5000.00 fee. Perfect mindless summertime fun for a hot evening with something cool to drink with the popcorn. Attractive stars and a wonderful light blue convertible. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038919/combined
The Help (2011) Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer. Wonderful cast brings to life story of a novice author who wants to write about the stories of the maids in a southern town. Pitch perfect in all cases, and funny too. Just a delighful film about a serious subject - the lives of the African-American maids in the 1960's south. Great roles for most of the leads in the cast. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454029/combined
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