NEW TO ME:
Cornered (1946) Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel. Powell is a relentless SOB going after who killed his French war bride. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380510/combined
Holiday For Sinners (1952) Gig Young, Keenan Wynn, Janice Rule. Neat B-movie with Wynn as a washed up boxer in New Orleans at Mardi Gras time. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044715/combined
Premonition (2007/I) Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon. Mixed up story of a woman who keeps having dreams and strange out of body experiences. Muddled. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477071/combined
The Lovely Bones (2009) Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon. Told by a young girl who has died at the hands of a neighbor, who is never found out. Pretty pictures of the imagined afterlife. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380510/combined
Kit Kittredge, American Girl (20) Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell. Adventures of a depression era girl who writes and tries to get the newspaper to publish her stories of her family and neighbors as they struggle with growing proverty. 8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0846308/combined
Cloud Atlas (2013) Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent. So awful I could not finish and quit after an hour. 2/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111/combined
ENCORES:
One In A Million (1936) Sonja Heini, Don Ameche, Jean Hersholt, Adolph Menjou. Story is indifferent but the skating of Olympic Champion is fine. She could not win in today competitions, but back when doing the figures counted for most of the score, she won 3 times. 7/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028063/combined
My Bill (1939) Kay Francis, Bonita Granville, Dickie Moore, Anita Louise, John Litel. When Pop dies, Bill has to take over to save Mom from wicked Aunt who comes and turns them out of their house. Sisters go with Aunt because they like the good life. But Bill and Mom win the day. 8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030479/combined
Two Girls And A Sailor (1944) June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gloria DeHaven, Jimmy Durante. The first movie of the three leads. Durante does some of his famous routines. Harry James and his orchestra provide the music and he does his trumpet solos and is so good. Lots of music and Lena Horne sings too. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037408/combined
It Should Happen To You (1954) Judy Holiday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford. Mild comedy of a girl who uses all her money to put her name on a giant billboard, causing her to become a sensation, for nothing. Like today being famous for being famous. 6/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047123/combined
U.S. Marshals (1998) Tommie Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Joe Pantoliano. The same team of Marshals from The Fugitive are after a guy accused of murder who was being transfered in a prisoners airplane that crashes because another prisoner tries to excape. Good action and the Marshals banter is fun. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120873/combined
Maid In Manhattan (2002) Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Natasha Richardson. Cinderella story of a hotel maid and the big politician who meet and sparks fly. She goes to the ball but then has to disappear. Do they end up together? Are you kidding? 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252076/combined
Last Holiday (2006) Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Gerard Depardieu. Updating of the wonderful Alex Guinness film from the 1950's. She is a lowly employee of a department store who is misdianosed with a brain tumor and given 3 weeks to live. She quits her job, cashes out her retirement and bond money and goes for a perfect holiday at a swank European mountain retreat. She sets all the rich guests straight and does all the exciting things she was too scared to try. All's well that ends well. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408985/combined
Bride Wars (2009) Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Candice Bergen. Two best friends from childhood get engaged at the same time and both want to have the perfect wedding. When scheduling gets messed up and they end up having the same day, all hell breaks out. 7/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0901476/combined
Taking Chance (2009) TV Movie. Kevin Bacon. I start crying at the beginning and just keep tearing up all the way through. Story of the escort for the body and casket of a soldier from the return from the battlefield to the burial in his hometown. All along the way the escort honors the fallen hero at each tranfer and others do as well. Heartbreaking. 9/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019454/combined
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