A Few New; Favorites too---

NEW TO ME:

Allotment Wives {1945) Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger.  Minor Francis film, but the subject was very timely in 1945.  Women marrying GI's for their allotment checks and the agents who broke the racket.  Kay is one of the women and in charge of the younger girls.  Kelly is the agent who ends the scam.  7/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037505/combined

Treasure Of The Golden Condor (1953) Cornel Wilde, Anne Bancroft, Constance Smith, George Macready, Fay Wray.  Usual sand and sword melodrama.  Mayan gold is the treasure. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046457/combined

Kiss Of Death (1995) David Caruso, Nic Cage, Katherine Erbe, Samuel Jackson, Helen Hunt, Stanley Tucci.    Based loosely on the 1947 noir classic, this can't begin to hold a candle to the earlier film.  Caruso is no Victor Mature.  Cage plays crazy well, but is no Richard Widmark and there is no iconic scene such as the pushing grandma down the stairsas in the earlier film.  In fact it is so boring I quit half way through.  3/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113552/combined

High Fidelity (2000) John Curack, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joan Cusack.  Rom/com about a sad sack guy who runs a vintage record shop and has nutty friends and employees.  Mainly about his love life.  6/10  .  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146882/combined

ENCORES:

It's A Date {1940) Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pigeon.  Mom's a Broadway star who goes on a trip to Hawaii to rest and learn new part.  Deanna is her daughter who wants to be an actress.  Mixups and fun and good music make a pleasant film.  8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032644/combined

Play Girl (1941) Kay Francis, Mildred Cole, Margaret Hamilton, James Elison, Nigel Bruce. Aging gold-digger takes on a young girl and coaches her in the ways of the world and how to take men for the moeny they will fork over.  As usual, Kay wears fantastic fashions.  The cast makes the film fun.  8/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032916/combined

To start 2014 - A week in Florida ----

---looking at the white sand beach and the gulf - away from sub-zero temps - was like heaven.  A few films watched while on vacation ---

NEW TO ME:

Hello Again (1987) Shelley Long, Gabriel Byrne, Judith Ivey, Corbin Bernsen. Charming fantasy about a woman who chokes to death and is brought back to life after a year by her kooky sister. Her husband has moved on and she has to convince someone she  is who she says she is.  7/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093175/combined

Scenes From A Mall (1991) Bette Midlar, Woody Allen.  On the verge of a breakup of their marriage, a couple spends a day at a huge mall doing this and that and talking.    7/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102849/combined

Wicker Park (2004) Josh Harnett, Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger.  Obsession with a young woman seen in a cafe by a man, leads him to put his life and career on hold as he trails her around.  Is she his former love who walked out on him?  He has to know.   6/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324554/combined

Poisidon (2006) Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss.  Remake of the original is rather tedious.           6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409182/combined

Rescue Dawn (2006) Christian Bale.  The fight to survive in the jungle of  Laos during the war in Vietnam.  6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462504/combined

Passion Play (2010)  Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox, Bill Murray.  Fantasy about an angel rescued my a down and out trumpet player.  Sweet story.  5/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1396221/combined

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I (2011) Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner.   The    wedding of Bella and Edward and the baby causes all kinds of drama.  Not a very good entry in the saga.  5/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1324999/combined

Snow White And The Huntsman (2011) Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth.  A retelling of the fairy tale with the huntsman sent to kill the princess becoming her mentor and protecter.  6/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1735898/combined

No Strings Attached (2011/I) Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline.  They met at a summer camp as young kids and then, years later, after he discovers his girl friend in bed with his father, calls all his little black book numbers and ends up drunk and naked in her place.  After a discussion they decide to have a sex only relationship.  Will it last?  The leads are so attractive we want it to work out.   7/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411238/combined

Virtual Lies (2012/TV film) Christina Cox, Marc Menard.  A cyber romance goes wrong for a man who almost loses his wife after creating a fake identity online and indulging in lies, deceit and seduction.  5/10   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1887712/combined