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Four (2012)
Kind of shameful
Wendell Pierce is like a big whale seducing a young but willing little white guy. I mean the way he lusted after him when he took off his clothes and lay on the bed, was off putting. When he kept sweating this kid about not coming out to his parents, my brains screamed "Did you tell your wife and daughter?
The film was truly acted put quite well though.
Last Night (2014)
Fine Romance
Movie starts a little slow but the charm of the two leads, a model girl and a handsome junior exec looking guy, draws you in because you want something good to happen. It's about a chance meeting on the Eve of a model going to another city to be with her long-term guy. She meets a handsome stranger in a coffee shop and they spend a whole evening-into-nite discovering each other walking through the nite. Just plain old good acting and chemistry. I'm good with the ending too.
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Stepford Wives
I find that the Stepford Wives isn't exactly a work of the greatest art but it is enticing. Something homey about it that soon turns a little unsettling. Still it's really an intelligent movie. It was made in 1975 and to me, Automation, Electronics and Technology wasn't so equipped to have these "Robots" made as they were. It kind of seems flip flopped in that area, as if the science to create such a society wasn't invented yet. I like Katherine Ross role because she is observant, her first observation being that the "ambulance" that drove the lady in the car accident away, didn't go towards to Hospital. The presence of all of those plants that allude to computers and electronics being part of the formula and the fact that Patrick O'Neil worked for Disneyland at one point could account for his knowledge of Robots (I guess) or the man who had Katherine voice recording and the Artist. I never engaged in it years ago but recently have gotten hooked on this movie.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Well, I have Been Looking for Mr. Goodbar Too!
Not really. I have heard that there are no prints of this Movie although it is considered a classic. It is. Diane Keaton gives a powerful performance as a gifted teacher who frequents seedy bars and picks up men to one-night stands. Scary. Scarier is when she really picks up the wrong one.
What a lot of people may miss in the movie is that Diane's character has a congenital medical condition (Scoliosis I believe) and does not want to marry a man and have a child with it. Pretty mild condition in my opinion to live your life this risky. She walks with what she thinks she pulls off as a little switch, but her untimely partner recognizes it as a mild limp because she did have surgery for it as a child.
Her array of men are somewhat handsome losers with Richard Gere, John Travolta and Tom Berenger. All I want to do is see it again and have it in my collection!
My Man Godfrey (1936)
One of My Favorite Winter Movies
It just works, for me. Carole Lombard is a heavenly Madcap Socialite who meets Godfrey on a Scavenger Hunt, brings him home to be a Butler in her family's rich Household that is tumbling due to the Stock Market Crash.
It's a sweet love story with several laughable edges to it, especially when Carole's character Irene wants Godfrey to notice her so grabs her big lug of a boyfriend to accept an engagement from him that he doesn't even remember asking for. In short, it's a movie about Class and at the same time, out of all of her frivolous, flighty nature, Carole knows that Godfrey, played by William Powell has something extra going for him. It's cool, the way love should be. He's in love with her but simply cannot show her.
Hooray for Love (1935)
One of the Most Beautiful Vintage Movies
I found this movie in the 1970s and it usually played on or around Thanksgiving. I love Vintage movies like My Man Godfrey and this one. It is a totally underrated movie with one of the nicest casts around. Ann Southern, Gene Raymond, Bill Robinson and Jeni Le Gon. Guess you wonder who Ms. Le Gon was. She was a woman from Chicago that was not formally taught Tap but could mimic the moves until she got a role in the movie. She and Bill Robinson does a really crisp dance together. I saw this lovely woman on television about 10 years ago. She explained how she got the part.
What I really like is the chemistry of Gene and Ann and the little loose plot and the music. When Ann Southern Sings "I'm in Love All Over Again", it kind of pulls at my heart. Actually, I want to find this movie, I really do because for some reason it hasn't been back on television in about 15 years or better!