The rewatches we the best this week.
FIRST WATCHES:
The Young Doctors (1961) Ben Gazzara, Fredrick March, Eddie Albert, Ina Balin. Usual hospital melodrama, with conflict between staid older doctor and the modern new guy on staff. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055632/combined
Volcano (1997) Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffman, Don Cheadle. Los Angeles is in peril as a volcano erupts and all hell breaks loose. The volcano wins! 7/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120461/combined
Being Julia (2004) Annette Benning, Shaun Evans, Jeremy Irons, Michael Gabon. About stage people with Benning overacting and being a bitch. And an annoying young guy who becomes her lover. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340012/combined
A Mighty Heart (2007) Angelina Jolie. Based on fact story of a reporter who goes missing and the wife who frantically tries to find out if he is still alive. Mariane Pearl embarks on a search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, in Pakistan. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829459/combined
Dream House (2011) Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts. A few days after seeing this on HBO, I have already forgotten most of what it is about. An old dark house and murder, I think. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462041/combined
Ruby Sparks (2012) Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Chris Messina, Annette Benning, Anthony Bandaras. Oh! dear. He's a novelist with writers block who creates a character that then appears and becomes his annoying girlfriend. Quirky. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839492/combined
Contraband (2012) Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Giovanni Ribisi. Low life and scum drug smugglers and a guy who was trying to have the good life after leaving the life of crime. Plugs along but in the end is just kinda boring. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1524137/combined
ENCORES:
Kings Row (1942) Robert Cummings, Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn. Watched many times. Still find it very good. 8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1524137/combined
Kismet (1944) Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Joy Page, James Craig, Edward Arnold. Surprised by how much I enjoyed this Arabian Knights film again after so many years. Dietrich painted all in gold is a sight to behold! 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036984/combined
Great Expectations (1946) John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Jean Simmons, Finnley Curie, Alec Guinness. I didn't enjoy it as much this time. But great cast does the story justice. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038574/combined
In The Valley Of Elah (2007) Tommie Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon. The consequesces of the Iraq war of choice on a family. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478134/combined
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