Time again for another trip to the movies. This past week, I watched:
All of Me (1984) - Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. If you haven't seen this, you're missing out on a hilariously fun movie. Lily plays a rich lady who's dying and has plans to put her soul into a beautiful young woman, but the vessel falls out a window and hits her lawyer - played by Steve - in the head. So, now she's in his body with him and he has to get her out. Comedic genius on the part of Steve Martin with some cute verbal bits by Tomlin.
Swallows and Amazons (2016) - this was a sleeper I found when I was just looking for something nice to watch. It's about these kids in England on holiday in 1935. They go to a home on a lake and get permission to take the boat out to this island, where they stay the night, but there are other kids who have already claimed the island and they have a 'war'. It all works out and they become friends, and they defeat some Russian spies, too. We really enjoyed this one.
Death on the Nile (1978) - Peter Ustinov as Poirot. Need I say more? Personally, I prefer David Suchet as Poirot, but I love Peter Ustinov, so I couldn't really go wrong watching this. It's a pretty good adaptation, if you can get past the '70s kitsch.
The Mirror Crack'd (1980) - this had a star-studded cast, including Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. Angela Lansbury made a fine Miss Marple. (Margaret Rutherford was the best Miss Marple, but that was a longer time ago.) I've never seen another adaptation for this book, so I guess this would be the best one. Not the best Agatha Christie based movie I've ever seen though. Fun, but I'm not a huge fan of Elizabeth Taylor.
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012) - Another awesome Jesse Stone. Although this one did kind of leave things hanging that weren't addressed in the next and final movie of the series.
Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise (2015) - This was the final Jesse Stone movie. It was a pretty good one, even if it did start out a little sad. I was sorry to have finished this series of movies and I definitely know we'll be revisiting these at least once a year from now on.
Murphy's Romance (1985) - a cute little romance between a divorcee (Sally Field) and a older pharmacist (James Garner). She moves out to a small town in AZ, I think, to start her own ranch and escape from her life in CA. She meets the pharmacist and over time they become friends. Then her ex shows up like he's trying to win her back, and it's clear to everyone but her that Murphy 's tossed his hat into the ring for her. Anyway, it all works out in the end. HEA abounds. Yay.
That's it for me... I know, it was a lot. It'll taper off this week, as I'm running out of movies and watching more shows. Eh, maybe I'll start talking about those, too. We'll see. Did you watch anything good lately?
I LOVED "Murphy's Romance." It was sweet and funny and there really was some chemistry between Garner and Fields. Of course, he's one of my favorite actors.
ReplyDeleteI really need to take a day and just binge movies. Or something. By the time my day is done, I'M done with the day and dozing off with stuff in my hands, th elights on, and life going on around me. LOLOL
If you can find them streaming, I highly recommend "The Secret of Roan Innish" and "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain." Both are wonderful--to me at least.