Thanks for this. I thought the preview looked appealing but Sandler usually turns me off for the reasons you said. Good to know this one isn't like that. Drew Barrymore is a favorite of mine, so I'll give this a watch now!

Last night I watched the Palm Beach Story , with Claudette Colbert and Joel McRea. I thought I had seen it before, but I must have confused it with another film. Colbert decides to leave her husband (McRea) because she believes she is holding him back. So she goes off to Palm Beach to get a divorce ...

I second Grand Budapest Motel as a film worth seeing. I enjoyed it far more than I expected to.

I really need to watch GWTW. I have never seen it! All the classics I've watched, hundreds and hundreds of films, and yet I still haven't seen what is regarded as the greatest of them. I even own it and haven't gotten to it! :lol: It's just long, and I hesitate to start every time because of that. I...

It's really pitiful what film posters have become in the last two decades. They used to be something special.

Myrna Loy on a New Year's Eve of long ago.



Happy New Year, Oasis!

Today is my birthday. Turning 45 (or 30 for the 15th time, as I like to think of it), and feeling pretty good for an old guy.

I thought that, apart from the scene where he shrinks down and runs around the city, which was rather silly, the movie was pretty true to Dickens, from the look and feel to the story.

Lomm, are you about Cary Grant-ed out? "Mr. Blandings" is the best of the bunch. That could never happen to me! :) He's my favorite actor of the classic era, and one of my favorites period. I haven't even gotten around to revisiting the best stuff yet. I still have a lot of early films to...

I'm going to get my kids to watch It's a Wonderful Life this year. They're teens now, so the restless childhood "this is boring because it's not a cartoon" years are behind them. Now I just have to get them through the black and white hurdle. :lol: I watch it every Christmas, even if I hav...

Well, tonight I saw the final Hobbit film in the theaters. It was pretty good, but a bit overblown (like the whole series; turning a short childrens book into 3 2+ hour movies??) But on the classic front, I've been watching (in some cases rewatching) quite a few Cary Grant films lately. Mr Blandings...

http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt8/MovieJoe/MovieJoe003/adc8ab5c-4c74-4350-ad9c-b6f93df34b80_zps63cad258.jpg Birthday boy Tommy Kirk at the fan photo signing autographs Hollywood show in 2014 :| I hate feeling old. I loved watching Tommy on so many Disney Channel repeats in the 80s. He and Dean...

For me it's: White Christmas It's a Wonderful Life National Lampoons Christmas Vacation Miracle on 34th St (the original) Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton) Die Hard. :D And then add in all the Rankin-Bass television specials from my childhood, plus Charlie Brown, The Grinch, Mr Magoo, and on a...

My favorite actor. He could do slapstick complete with with pratfalls, then turn around and play a serious dramatic role, and pull off both. And probably the most classically handsome actor of any era. He was almost so often the first choice for roles that ended up going to the likes of Bogie (once)...

Based on the regular schedule on BBCA, I'm going to guess it's Dr Who.