---perfect films and dogs.
FIRST WATCHES:
Lucky Partners (1940) Ginger Rogers, Ronald Colman, Jack Carson, Spring Byington. They share a winning sweepstakes ticket and things happen. Screwy and unfunny comedy that did not make me laugh once. 4/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032733/combined
The Family Man (2000) Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven. Rich, high powered investment broker, wakes up one morning in a suburban house with his former girlfriend as his wife and has two kids. Fish out of water , but he gets the hang of dirty diapers etc. Will he ever get his life back? 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218967/combined
The Bourne Legacy (2012)Jeremy Renner stars as Aaron Cross and is very good as the action hero. Rachel Weisz is Dr. Marta Shearing, the scientist who gets caught up in the chase adventure. Ed Norton is the villian and various characters from the other Bourne films are also in this one. I miss Jason but it was a satisfiying sequel. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/combined
ENCORES:
History Is Made At Night (1937) Jean Arthur, Charles Boyer, Leo Carillo, Colin Clive. Romance, obsession and murder. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029002/combined
The Palm Beach Story (1942) Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee. Perfectly wonderful Preston Sturges comedy. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035169/combined
Kiss Of Death (1947) Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray. Perfect film-noir with great performance of crazy by Widmark. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039536/combined
July 22, 2013
July 17, 2013
Rosalind Russell tops this week---
FIRST WATCHES:
Hide-Out (1934) Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold, Elizabeth Patterson. Gangster on the run is reformed by country girl and her family. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025251/combined
Winchester73 (1950) James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Dailey, Stephen McNally. Western I thought for years I had seen, but dicovered I had it mixed up with another Stewart western. Manhunt theme. Interesting because of the future stars in minor roles, like Tony Curtis as an infantry soldier and Rock Hudson as an Indian!. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043137/combined
ENCORES:
Hired Wife (1940) Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Virginia Bruce, Robert Benchley, John Carroll. Comedy about an excutive and his secretary who marry because of business needing to be put in some one elses name for a while. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032596/combined
The Feminine Touch (1941) Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Van Heflin, Kay Francis. Great cast has fun with battle of the sexes. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033596/combined
Presumed Innocent (1990) Harrison Ford, Raul Julia, Brian Dennehy, Bonnie Bedelia, Greta Scacchi, Paul Winfield. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100404/combined
July 10, 2013
GOOD & BAD---
FIRST WATCHES:
And So They Were Married (1936) Mary Astor, Melvyn Douglas, Donad Meek. A man and woman, both parents, arrive at a skiing lodge and before long their offspring are being bratty and causing trouble. A landslide blocks the road and they end up among the few guests. So the adults gradually become interested in each other and the kids have to make the best of it. Not bad and Astor is a delight. 7/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027293/combined
Weekend With Father (1951) Van Heflin, Patricia Neal, Virginif Field, Richard Denning. He has two girls. She has two boys. They fall in love and decide to marry. His former girlfriend, a singer, decides to visit the lodge where they are all vacationing. Supposed to be charming but is tedious. 6/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044199/combined
Morning Glory (2010) Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson. A new hire at the TV station tries to make the ratings go up and gets on the last nerve of the grumpy star newsman. Never have seen McAdams act so hyper. She makes ME nervous and is not appreciated by her fellow toilers at the station. Ford is fine as the old time newsman who doesn't want to do frivolous segments she thinks up.
7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1126618/combined
ENCORES:
Maytime (1937) Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore. Glorious music and costumes. Beautiful cinematography. A favorite. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029222/combined
Three Daring Daughters (1948) Jane Powell, Jeanette MacDonald, Jose Iterbi, Edward Arnold. Remake of Deanna Durbin film. Powell is no Durbin. Jeanette is in fine voice. Rather tedious. 6/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040875/combined
The Swan (1956) Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Jessie Royce Landis. Beautifully done romance. The stars are wonderful. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049815/combined
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Vince Vaughn. Crazy gun toting couple each work for an agency that tries to get rid of the other assasin. Stars make it worth watching every once in a while. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356910/combined
P.S. I Love You (2007) Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Gina Gershon, Lisa Kudrow, Harry Connick Jr., Kathy Bates. Young woman loses her husband to a brain tumor and discovers he has written a series of letters to be delivered each month with some sort of instruction for her. Funny in parts with her friends; lovely romance as she remembers how they met and fell in love. For romantics only. 9/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431308/combined
The only thing that's permanent is change!
And So They Were Married (1936) Mary Astor, Melvyn Douglas, Donad Meek. A man and woman, both parents, arrive at a skiing lodge and before long their offspring are being bratty and causing trouble. A landslide blocks the road and they end up among the few guests. So the adults gradually become interested in each other and the kids have to make the best of it. Not bad and Astor is a delight. 7/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027293/combined
Weekend With Father (1951) Van Heflin, Patricia Neal, Virginif Field, Richard Denning. He has two girls. She has two boys. They fall in love and decide to marry. His former girlfriend, a singer, decides to visit the lodge where they are all vacationing. Supposed to be charming but is tedious. 6/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044199/combined
Morning Glory (2010) Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson. A new hire at the TV station tries to make the ratings go up and gets on the last nerve of the grumpy star newsman. Never have seen McAdams act so hyper. She makes ME nervous and is not appreciated by her fellow toilers at the station. Ford is fine as the old time newsman who doesn't want to do frivolous segments she thinks up.
7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1126618/combined
ENCORES:
Maytime (1937) Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore. Glorious music and costumes. Beautiful cinematography. A favorite. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029222/combined
Three Daring Daughters (1948) Jane Powell, Jeanette MacDonald, Jose Iterbi, Edward Arnold. Remake of Deanna Durbin film. Powell is no Durbin. Jeanette is in fine voice. Rather tedious. 6/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040875/combined
The Swan (1956) Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Jessie Royce Landis. Beautifully done romance. The stars are wonderful. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049815/combined
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Vince Vaughn. Crazy gun toting couple each work for an agency that tries to get rid of the other assasin. Stars make it worth watching every once in a while. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356910/combined
P.S. I Love You (2007) Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Gina Gershon, Lisa Kudrow, Harry Connick Jr., Kathy Bates. Young woman loses her husband to a brain tumor and discovers he has written a series of letters to be delivered each month with some sort of instruction for her. Funny in parts with her friends; lovely romance as she remembers how they met and fell in love. For romantics only. 9/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431308/combined
The only thing that's permanent is change!
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