This week I watched:
Tombstone (1993) Kurt Russell,Val Kilmer, Powers Booth, Sam Elliott. Wyatt Earp and his brothers want to retire from gunfighting and live in peace in Tombstone. The Clantons and Johnny Ringo have other ideas. Familiar story is well made and interesting. This was shown of the History Channel with commentary by historians on how accurate it is to what is known of the real Earps and others in the story. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108358/
Wyatt Earp (1994) Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman. According to the 2 historians commenting on the History Ch. this is the most accurate of the films made about the Earps. Very interesting, especially Quaid as Doc Holliday, and Hackman as the father of the boys and how he raised them. Great staging of the Clayton-Earp showdown at the O.K. Corral. Enjoyed it all. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111756/
Attila (2001) Gerard Butler, Powers Booth, Tim Curry. My DVD of this TV mini-series I originally saw on the A & E channel. Not accurate in the way the title character looked, from the only picture we have of the real Attila. But that was done by his enemies. This is a beautiful boy and man and the story is filmed in lovely surroundings. All that said, I still enjoy it just as I did the two nights I watched it in 2001. Butler is quiet and I can't take my eyes off him when he is on screen. Still rate it 9/10. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259127/
Beverly Hills Chiwauwau (2008) P-U! This stinks up the house. I thought the doggies would be cute and funny, but what they did to these dogs is a crime. Trickery to make their mouths look like they are speaking, just ruins their looks and makes the whole thing stupid. And the human? Is she? Horrible, horrible. If I could I would rate it zero, but 1 is all they let you chose. 1/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014775/
Changeling (2008) Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan. Very interesting film, based on an actual case in Los Angeles. In 1928 a woman working at the telephone company is called back to work for a few hours after her shift and leaves her young son home alone. When she gets back home, he is gone. Her frantic hunt through the neighborhood and report to the police, set in motion a strange and bewildering series of events that eventually lead to her being incarcerated in an insane asylum. At this point, a crusading radio preacher takes up her case, and the public pressure to release women locked up for only minor infractions, become so intense the courts finally start to do something about the corrupt police department. Good story and acting. As a preteen during WWII, I can say conditions were not much better even then. Husbands could and did, lock up women if they were too troublesome. Jolie does very well, trying to seem rational when the authorities are driving the woman mad with indifference and outright lies. Donovan is great as a man doing the dirty work for the Chief and the politicians. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0824747/
Body Of Lies (2008) Leonardo diCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong. Very complicated story of agents in the field and their controls at Langley, CIA headquarters. Leo is the Jordan agent. Crowe his control. I didn't like either character. They use people, lie, cheat, sneer, and are just about scum. But, I guess, on 'our' side. Honestly, while it was interesting, I could not care what happened to anyone but Hani Salaam (Mark Strong) a man who at least lived by some rules. Strong was the best part of the film, quiet and firm and a little scary. Leo was a jerk; Russell was hateful. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758774/
Australia (2008) Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters, David Wenham. In an epic, the script is the thing, the only thing. It is why Selznick's Gone With The Wind; David Leans' Dr. Zhivago, or Lawrence Of Arabia; or Ben Hur; have stood the test of time. The story. Lehrman has made a very interesting film, sometimes beautiful, but the story is disjointed. We have Nallah, a boy of mixed parentage, telling the story. He is interesting. We like him. But suddenly, we are involved with Lady Ashley, come from England to what? Save her husband, save the ranch or what? I really wasn't sure. And Drover Hugh is there for conflict. They must get her cattle to the port. It is a long way, with lots of trouble. It is not that interesting. Luhrmann has lots of scenery of northern Australia he wants to get in and it is spectacular. The gradual love between the drover and the lady is just boring. Getting in the attack by Japan and how all the characters survive is anticlimactic. For me, the most interesting and compelling story is of the boy Nallah and his Grandfather, the wise man. Now that would have made Lehrman's epic a story for the ages. But is is worth seeing for the Australian country. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455824/
Gardening is happening. Making me tired so all I can do is watch films and try to stay awake. Lots of rain predicted this week, so.......
May 04, 2009
April 26, 2009
Movies from the 1930's this week----
----I watched:
The Gay Bride (1934) Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Zazu Pitts. THE Gold Digger of the 1930's. Carole is really good as a woman who wants everything (in writing) from the men who flock around her. She is an actress and her man of the moment is a gangster, which doesn't concern her as long as she is in the will. Morris is a bodyguard the boss has watching her every move. He's on to her and their spats are very clever and entertaining. One of the best Lombard comedies I've seen. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025163/
Top Hat (1935) Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. One of the first and best of the duo's films. And one of the first to have the troup of great character actors in support: Eric Blore, Edward Evertt Horton, Helen Broderick, and the wonderful Erik Rhodes as Alberto (I'm so pretty) Beddini. "Dancing Cheek To Cheek" and the title number are worth watching the whole film for, but it's all lots of fun. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027125/
Ruggles Of Red Gap (1935) Charles Laughton, Zazu Pitts. Fish out of water story of a English mans man who is won in a poker game and ends up in the west in Red Gap in Washington State. The town is full of characters, of course, and eventually Ruggles loosens up and begins to get used to the freedom. When he decides he can own a restaurant, he has found his American dream, and alls well that ends well. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026955/
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938) Janet Gaynor is child like as a country girl who comes to the big city. Shes looking for her bridegroom who left her waiting at the church. She enlists author Malcome (Robert Montgomery), who she met when he was on a tour promoting his latest book, to help her find him. His friend Robert from next door, also his publisher, falls for sweet Nancy (she's a good cook) which makes Malcome jealous. Sort of a screwball comedy. The leads are likeable. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030867/
Fools For Scandal (1938) Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravet. Screwball comedy that makes even less sense than usual. At one point the leads begin singing a song, and whistling. Evidentally quite a few songs were written for the film by Rogers & Hart and discarded. Story of an actress visiting Paris who is picked up by a layabout who then proceeds to stalk her, while her fiance(Ralph Bellamy) barges in and out from time to time, is just not that amusing. But the stars are likeable so spending 90 minutes with them is not unbearable. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030145/
Our weather moderated this week so was able to plant some pretty flowers in my porch boxes and patio containers. Good to be out side.
The Gay Bride (1934) Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Zazu Pitts. THE Gold Digger of the 1930's. Carole is really good as a woman who wants everything (in writing) from the men who flock around her. She is an actress and her man of the moment is a gangster, which doesn't concern her as long as she is in the will. Morris is a bodyguard the boss has watching her every move. He's on to her and their spats are very clever and entertaining. One of the best Lombard comedies I've seen. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025163/
Top Hat (1935) Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. One of the first and best of the duo's films. And one of the first to have the troup of great character actors in support: Eric Blore, Edward Evertt Horton, Helen Broderick, and the wonderful Erik Rhodes as Alberto (I'm so pretty) Beddini. "Dancing Cheek To Cheek" and the title number are worth watching the whole film for, but it's all lots of fun. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027125/
Ruggles Of Red Gap (1935) Charles Laughton, Zazu Pitts. Fish out of water story of a English mans man who is won in a poker game and ends up in the west in Red Gap in Washington State. The town is full of characters, of course, and eventually Ruggles loosens up and begins to get used to the freedom. When he decides he can own a restaurant, he has found his American dream, and alls well that ends well. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026955/
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938) Janet Gaynor is child like as a country girl who comes to the big city. Shes looking for her bridegroom who left her waiting at the church. She enlists author Malcome (Robert Montgomery), who she met when he was on a tour promoting his latest book, to help her find him. His friend Robert from next door, also his publisher, falls for sweet Nancy (she's a good cook) which makes Malcome jealous. Sort of a screwball comedy. The leads are likeable. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030867/
Fools For Scandal (1938) Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravet. Screwball comedy that makes even less sense than usual. At one point the leads begin singing a song, and whistling. Evidentally quite a few songs were written for the film by Rogers & Hart and discarded. Story of an actress visiting Paris who is picked up by a layabout who then proceeds to stalk her, while her fiance(Ralph Bellamy) barges in and out from time to time, is just not that amusing. But the stars are likeable so spending 90 minutes with them is not unbearable. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030145/
Our weather moderated this week so was able to plant some pretty flowers in my porch boxes and patio containers. Good to be out side.
April 20, 2009
Taxes filed. Garden cleanup started. Patio straightened up and cushions in rockers. Narcissus all in bloom. But wind and rain forced me indoors and this week I watched:
Swing Time (1938) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers are great! The film of theirs I watch most often. Great songs, cute story and the spectacular number "Bojangles Of Harlem." Here it is on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cLbk9k8BI
Regardless of what our sensibilities of today think of Astaire in black face, in the era of the film it was a fact of life. And the dancing is great. As a tribute to Bill Robinson, which Astaire asserted in later years, it is wonderful. In his prime he must have been a delight to watch on stage. All time favorite. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028333/
Double Indemnity (1944) Barbara Stanwyke, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson. Just about a down and dirty as it got. Scheming and cigarettes, and double dealing, suspicion. Dames and mugs and murder. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/
A Shot In The Dark (1964) Peter Sellers, Elke Summers. Not nearly as funny now as it was in 1964 when we saw it the first time. Some chuckles. And Herbert Lom as Cpt. Dreyfus is priceless. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058586/
The Natural (1984) Robert Redford, Glenn Close. A sentimental favorite about a game I used to spend lots of time on every summer. My Dad took me to my first pro game and taught me to keep score in the program. Heaven. Some of the love and feelings come through in this film of a country boy leaving home with high hopes of a career and the disaster that happened. A fable that we wish would come true. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058586/
The Departed (2006) Leonardo diCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson. Well 3 years later and I still like this story of double dealing and revenge among lawmen and the Irish mafia. Undercover plants on both sides. Very interwoven stories. The deep undercover of diCaprio makes it almost impossible for him to survive. And although of the main characters, Wahlberg is the one that lives, I really despised him all through the film. Wonder if that is what Scorsese wanted. Great cast in even small roles. The rats survive. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/
Bordertown (2006) Jennifer Lopez is a reporter on a Chicago newspaper that gets an assignment to investigate women being killed on the Mexican border towns where large factories have been opened. Martin Sheen is the editor who sends her . Once she gets there and talks to the one girl who survived and can identify the guys who raped and tried to murder her, she is in constant danger. Antonio Banderas is a local newspaper publisher who helps her. It is a sad and maddening story and since there is no resolution in real life, there is none in the film. The open borders for people and jobs and drugs and guns just go on. Sad. Lopez is good but I've seen her better. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445935/
Religulous (2008) Bill Maher. As one who has questioned and asked some of the same questions Maher asks in his film, I really enjoyed this a lot. Organized religion became hard for me to take seriously with one scandal after another. I am religious. But I belong to no group anymore. So Bill skewing all the different organizations made me laugh a lot. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815241/
The last full week of April - the cruelest month - and I haven't a pot of pansies out yet. Much too cold and windy so far. But hope springs eternal - and maybe this week.....
Swing Time (1938) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers are great! The film of theirs I watch most often. Great songs, cute story and the spectacular number "Bojangles Of Harlem." Here it is on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cLbk9k8BI
Regardless of what our sensibilities of today think of Astaire in black face, in the era of the film it was a fact of life. And the dancing is great. As a tribute to Bill Robinson, which Astaire asserted in later years, it is wonderful. In his prime he must have been a delight to watch on stage. All time favorite. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028333/
Double Indemnity (1944) Barbara Stanwyke, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson. Just about a down and dirty as it got. Scheming and cigarettes, and double dealing, suspicion. Dames and mugs and murder. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/
A Shot In The Dark (1964) Peter Sellers, Elke Summers. Not nearly as funny now as it was in 1964 when we saw it the first time. Some chuckles. And Herbert Lom as Cpt. Dreyfus is priceless. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058586/
The Natural (1984) Robert Redford, Glenn Close. A sentimental favorite about a game I used to spend lots of time on every summer. My Dad took me to my first pro game and taught me to keep score in the program. Heaven. Some of the love and feelings come through in this film of a country boy leaving home with high hopes of a career and the disaster that happened. A fable that we wish would come true. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058586/
The Departed (2006) Leonardo diCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson. Well 3 years later and I still like this story of double dealing and revenge among lawmen and the Irish mafia. Undercover plants on both sides. Very interwoven stories. The deep undercover of diCaprio makes it almost impossible for him to survive. And although of the main characters, Wahlberg is the one that lives, I really despised him all through the film. Wonder if that is what Scorsese wanted. Great cast in even small roles. The rats survive. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/
Bordertown (2006) Jennifer Lopez is a reporter on a Chicago newspaper that gets an assignment to investigate women being killed on the Mexican border towns where large factories have been opened. Martin Sheen is the editor who sends her . Once she gets there and talks to the one girl who survived and can identify the guys who raped and tried to murder her, she is in constant danger. Antonio Banderas is a local newspaper publisher who helps her. It is a sad and maddening story and since there is no resolution in real life, there is none in the film. The open borders for people and jobs and drugs and guns just go on. Sad. Lopez is good but I've seen her better. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445935/
Religulous (2008) Bill Maher. As one who has questioned and asked some of the same questions Maher asks in his film, I really enjoyed this a lot. Organized religion became hard for me to take seriously with one scandal after another. I am religious. But I belong to no group anymore. So Bill skewing all the different organizations made me laugh a lot. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815241/
The last full week of April - the cruelest month - and I haven't a pot of pansies out yet. Much too cold and windy so far. But hope springs eternal - and maybe this week.....
April 12, 2009
WWII, a western, a wedding & an island---
---this week I watched:
The Bridge Over The River Kwai (1957) Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Haykawa. Great David Lean film of the British prisoners of the Japanese in Malaysia during WWII, who are forced to build a bridge. Showing, as the doctor exclaims at the end, the "madness" of war. Marvelous casting and acting. Great location photography. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/
Nims Island (2008) Abigail Breslin, Jody Foster, Gerard Butler. Enjoyable fable of a young girl and her father and their adventures and troubles when the father is lost in a storm and our little heroine has to cope and find help from her favorite novelist. Perfect rainy afternoon film for youngsters and anyone who likes the sea, beaches and animals. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410377/
Rachel Getting Married (2008) Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Debra Winger. Disappointing story of a young woman on furlough from drug rehab going to her sisters wedding. Upper class fol-de-rol with various members of the extended family, and a weird group of musicians, wedding planners,. etc. Hathaway is a spoiled, bratty, self-centered woman who we are to feel something for, but I just wanted to slap her now and then. Winger as her mother is fine as a woman disconnected from her children, and their big scene together is well done, but we should have had more resolution. The reveal comes and goes so quickly, we don't know how we feel - shocked? Sorry? Understanding? It needed a bit more for me to feel anything other than glad it was all over. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1084950/
Appaloosa (2008) Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger. When is a western not a western. When there is no big fistfight. When there is no humor or old codgers talking. When a gal comes in on a train and meets up with two strangers and goes to bed with one the same day. And she's supposed to be a lady? The scenery is purty. Mortensen is too. Jeremy Irons as the rancher villain almost steals the picture from the two lawmen. 8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800308/
Still chilly and damp and not good for working in the soil and planting gardens. Waiting for Ma Nature to put on her spring finery and settle down for a spell.
The Bridge Over The River Kwai (1957) Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Haykawa. Great David Lean film of the British prisoners of the Japanese in Malaysia during WWII, who are forced to build a bridge. Showing, as the doctor exclaims at the end, the "madness" of war. Marvelous casting and acting. Great location photography. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/
Nims Island (2008) Abigail Breslin, Jody Foster, Gerard Butler. Enjoyable fable of a young girl and her father and their adventures and troubles when the father is lost in a storm and our little heroine has to cope and find help from her favorite novelist. Perfect rainy afternoon film for youngsters and anyone who likes the sea, beaches and animals. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410377/
Rachel Getting Married (2008) Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Debra Winger. Disappointing story of a young woman on furlough from drug rehab going to her sisters wedding. Upper class fol-de-rol with various members of the extended family, and a weird group of musicians, wedding planners,. etc. Hathaway is a spoiled, bratty, self-centered woman who we are to feel something for, but I just wanted to slap her now and then. Winger as her mother is fine as a woman disconnected from her children, and their big scene together is well done, but we should have had more resolution. The reveal comes and goes so quickly, we don't know how we feel - shocked? Sorry? Understanding? It needed a bit more for me to feel anything other than glad it was all over. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1084950/
Appaloosa (2008) Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger. When is a western not a western. When there is no big fistfight. When there is no humor or old codgers talking. When a gal comes in on a train and meets up with two strangers and goes to bed with one the same day. And she's supposed to be a lady? The scenery is purty. Mortensen is too. Jeremy Irons as the rancher villain almost steals the picture from the two lawmen. 8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800308/
Still chilly and damp and not good for working in the soil and planting gardens. Waiting for Ma Nature to put on her spring finery and settle down for a spell.
April 05, 2009
Three of the best.....
---this week I watched three very good films:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000; China "Wo hu cang long") Chow Yun Fat, Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh. Perfect blend of action, romance, great score, locations and cast. Story of two couples; one the experienced and wise warriors; the other the young, impetuous and unthinking, and how their actions bring great harm and unhappiness to them all. Beautiful location shooting in China by director Ang Lee adds to the story. He also took great care that the history and details of life in the era of the story was spot on. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/
Torpedo Run (1958) Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine. WWII story of submarine captain who is dedicated to sinking the fearsome Japanese air craft carrier that led the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tense scene when the sub is going through the gate and mines into the harbor. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052303/
Shane (1953) Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur, Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance. One of the great westerns. Perfectly cast in every role. Gorgeous locations. Story of the stranger who rides up to the farm of the Staretts and becomes emeshed in their lives and the lives of the whole community. Classic conflict between farmers and ranchers, has a great fistfight between the toughs at the saloon and Starett and Shane. Palance has hardly any lines, but his menace as Jack Wilson the hired gun, is palpable. The cold blooded killing of one of the farmers is one of the most dreadful to watch in films. Watched on TCM, the host talked about Director George Stevens spending over a year on the final editing of his film. He also spent far more time with his actors getting just the performance he wanted in each scene, no matter how long it took. Thank goodness. All that care and devotion has made Shane a special film for all time. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/
We are back to a very cold, rainy and dismal period for our first week of April. Well, the song says "April showers bring May flowers." I'm all for that!
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000; China "Wo hu cang long") Chow Yun Fat, Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh. Perfect blend of action, romance, great score, locations and cast. Story of two couples; one the experienced and wise warriors; the other the young, impetuous and unthinking, and how their actions bring great harm and unhappiness to them all. Beautiful location shooting in China by director Ang Lee adds to the story. He also took great care that the history and details of life in the era of the story was spot on. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/
Torpedo Run (1958) Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine. WWII story of submarine captain who is dedicated to sinking the fearsome Japanese air craft carrier that led the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tense scene when the sub is going through the gate and mines into the harbor. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052303/
Shane (1953) Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur, Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance. One of the great westerns. Perfectly cast in every role. Gorgeous locations. Story of the stranger who rides up to the farm of the Staretts and becomes emeshed in their lives and the lives of the whole community. Classic conflict between farmers and ranchers, has a great fistfight between the toughs at the saloon and Starett and Shane. Palance has hardly any lines, but his menace as Jack Wilson the hired gun, is palpable. The cold blooded killing of one of the farmers is one of the most dreadful to watch in films. Watched on TCM, the host talked about Director George Stevens spending over a year on the final editing of his film. He also spent far more time with his actors getting just the performance he wanted in each scene, no matter how long it took. Thank goodness. All that care and devotion has made Shane a special film for all time. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/
We are back to a very cold, rainy and dismal period for our first week of April. Well, the song says "April showers bring May flowers." I'm all for that!
March 29, 2009
Musicals, Rom/coms, Murders etc.---
----this week I watched:
You Were Never Lovelier (1942) Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Adolph Menjou. Freds new partner Rita is gorgeous and they are great together. 8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035583/
San Antonio (1945) Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith. Errol never looked better in western wear - drool! Alexis is gorgeous too. Lively story of crosses and double crosses among the saloon owners, ranchers, lawmen in and around the Alamo. S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall and Florence Bates take over when things get slow. Lots of fun. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038048/
Madeleine (1950 UK ) A black & white film starring Ann Todd as Madeleine. Based on a real case from 1857 of a Glasgow woman, on trial for killing her lover. At the end the jury finds "case not proven" and she is seen in the carriage with a slight smile as it drives away. So to this day, no one knows "did she, or didn't she?
Very interesting look at the court system and the handling of this one case. Todd is very good as the willful, secretive daughter of a tyrannical father. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042700/
Physical Evidence (1989) Theresa Russell, Burt Reynolds. Boring potboiler of a ex-cop accused of murder and his legal-aide attorney, who is trying to prove she is able to do the job. Confusing and by the end, I didn't care if Burt got off or not. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098093/
The Holiday (2006) Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black. This is one I liked and had some laughs with. The two gals on opposite sides of the world decide they need a change from their lives and boyfriends. The English Kate goes to the super rich Camerons Hollywood home. Cameron ends up in the English cottage with Kates brother dear, and they play musical beds for a while. An enjoyable rom/com. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457939/
Made Of Honor (2007) Patrik Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan. I have no memory of what this was about except I was bored and didn't like either lead. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0866439/
Untraceable (2008) Diane Lane. So many dumb choices. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0880578/
4 or 5 inches of snow fell yesterday (Sat.) some flakes as big as golf balls. Ma Nature throwing a fit, typical here in the Heartland. When it warms up this time, I'm getting some pansies for the porch and by the back door.
You Were Never Lovelier (1942) Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Adolph Menjou. Freds new partner Rita is gorgeous and they are great together. 8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035583/
San Antonio (1945) Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith. Errol never looked better in western wear - drool! Alexis is gorgeous too. Lively story of crosses and double crosses among the saloon owners, ranchers, lawmen in and around the Alamo. S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall and Florence Bates take over when things get slow. Lots of fun. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038048/
Madeleine (1950 UK ) A black & white film starring Ann Todd as Madeleine. Based on a real case from 1857 of a Glasgow woman, on trial for killing her lover. At the end the jury finds "case not proven" and she is seen in the carriage with a slight smile as it drives away. So to this day, no one knows "did she, or didn't she?
Very interesting look at the court system and the handling of this one case. Todd is very good as the willful, secretive daughter of a tyrannical father. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042700/
Physical Evidence (1989) Theresa Russell, Burt Reynolds. Boring potboiler of a ex-cop accused of murder and his legal-aide attorney, who is trying to prove she is able to do the job. Confusing and by the end, I didn't care if Burt got off or not. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098093/
The Holiday (2006) Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black. This is one I liked and had some laughs with. The two gals on opposite sides of the world decide they need a change from their lives and boyfriends. The English Kate goes to the super rich Camerons Hollywood home. Cameron ends up in the English cottage with Kates brother dear, and they play musical beds for a while. An enjoyable rom/com. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457939/
Made Of Honor (2007) Patrik Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan. I have no memory of what this was about except I was bored and didn't like either lead. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0866439/
Untraceable (2008) Diane Lane. So many dumb choices. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0880578/
4 or 5 inches of snow fell yesterday (Sat.) some flakes as big as golf balls. Ma Nature throwing a fit, typical here in the Heartland. When it warms up this time, I'm getting some pansies for the porch and by the back door.
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