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We're Not Dressing, a review by addicted2dvd

We're Not Dressing (1934/United States) IMDb |Trailer | Universal Studios Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Norman Taurog Writing: Walton Hall Smith (Story By), Benjamin Glazer (Story By), Horace Jackson (Screenwriter), Francis Martin (Screenwriter), George Marion, Jr. (Screenwriter) Length: 74 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Bing Crosby as Stephen Jones
Carole Lombard as Doris Worthington
George Burns as George
Gracie Allen as Gracie
Ethel Merman as Edith

Plot:
Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with the help of singing sailor Stephen Jones. Her friend Edith, Uncle Hubert, and Princes Michael and Alexander make it to the same island but all prove to be useless in the art of survival. The sailor is the only one with the practical knowhow to survive but Doris and the others snub his leadership offer. That is until he starts a clam bake and wafts the fumes in their starving faces. The group gradually gives into his leadership, the only question now is if Doris will give into his charms.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers

This one I enjoyed a lot. It's a musical romantic comedy. The story line is a lot of fun. Gracie Allen plays a ditz so well. Unfortunately George Burns and Gracie Allen had a rather small part in this one. The main stars being Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard. If you never seen this one I would definitely recommend it.



(From November Movie Marathon: Classic Comedy Greats on November 15th, 2017)

High Fidelity, a review by Antares

High Fidelity (2000) 62/100 - Back in the glory days of Blockbuster I must have had this film in my hands at least a dozen times, but wound up putting it back on the shelf after finding something else, but vowing to get it "next time". Well, I stopped going to Blockbuster and this film just kind of slipped from my memory. But now after watching it, I'm kind of glad I always found something else to watch. I'm not saying it's a bad film, but it really is just trying to be a little too hip and cute. What really struck me was how it wanted to be a hip amalgamation of Say Anything and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but sadly, never really gels. The continuous use of Cusack's character breaking the fourth wall becomes annoying after a while and keeps the film from concentrating on what really works in the film, namely, the scenes in the record store. I remember record stores like this and I definitely knew guys just like the three who worked there. There's a scene early in the film when Jack Black's character toys with a geek over a bootleg album, and another customer expounds how all three are elitists. I loved this scene, because it was so true. Every person I ever met back in the day who worked at a record store believed that they, and they alone, were God's given messenger of Rock & Roll. It's too bad that they didn't just focus more on the comedic potential of the store and jettison the tired attempt at philosophizing out personal relationships. It's been done to death, and Cusack had already done it much better in the Cameron Crowe film. But I will give kudos to the screenwriter for one of the best lines I've ever heard in a movie. When Dick and Barry are discussing the Top 5 songs about death, Barry mentions the Rolling Stones seminal, You Can't Always Get What You Want, to which Dick rebuts... No. Immediate disqualification because of its involvement with The Big Chill. That's a fucking priceless line and had me ROTFL.

What the color coding means...

Teal = Masterpiece
Dark Green = Classic or someday will be
Lime Green = A good, entertaining film
Orange = Average
Red = Cinemuck
Brown = The color of crap, which this film is

(From Antares' Short Summations on March 7th, 2013)

Tom's TV Finales marathon, a review by Tom

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Columbo: Seasons Six and Seven (1976/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Universal Studios Home Entertainment (United States) Length: 635 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: Subtitles:

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Plot:Columbo
Season 7.05 Make Me a Perfect Murder 28.02.1978
Writer: Robert Blees (Writer), Richard Levinson (Created By), William Link (Created By)
Director: James Frawley
Cast: Peter Falk (Columbo), Trish Van Devere (Kay Freestone), Laurence Luckinbill (Mark McAndrews), James McEachin (Walter Mearhead), Ron Rifkin (Luther), Lainie Kazan (Valerie Kirk), Bruce Kirby (TV Repairman), Kip Gilman (Jonathan), Patrick O'Neal (Frank Flanagan), Milt Kogan (Dubbing Chief), Dee Timberlake (Madge), Don Eitner (Pete Cockrum), Morgan Upton (Ames), Joe Warfield (Al Staley), George Skaff (The Producer), Jerome Guardino (Sgt. Burke), Susan Krebs (Wendy), H. B. Haggerty (Masseur), Buck Young (Guard), James Frawley (Roark), Socorro Swan (Nancy)

A great Columbo episode. One of my favorites. I chose to watch this episode for this marathon, because it was the last episode, when Columbo was still a TV series. What followed were TV movies. And as I have seen the last TV movie not long ago, I wanted to go further back in the series.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Finales marathon on April 14th, 2013)