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You Can't take it With You, a review by Rich

Academy Award Best Picture winner 1938

You Can't take it With You





A film where everything comes in small doses, at times funny, slightly uplifting, a touch moralistic, touching and vaguely inspirational.
I'd hoped for a great performance by James Stewart in this, but as the young stick thin drawling fiance, I was pretty underwhelmed with his performance. Fortunately it was bolstered by Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold and of course Lionel Barrymore.
Overall I found it a little bit disappointing, the so-called liberated characters came across as annoying, it is way too over sentimental, and I could not swallow the fact that big business and corporate greed can be beaten by sitting down playing a harmonica!
 

(From Riches Random Reviews on February 10th, 2009)

Iron Giant, a review by Rich

Iron Giant



Something huge is on the horizon. Hogarth Hughes just rescued an enormous robot that fell from the stars to Earth. Now young Hogarth has one very big friend and an even bigger problem: How do you keep a 50-foot-tall, steal-eating (junkyard cars are especially tasty) giant a secret? It's even harder when a nosy government agent arrives in town to hunt down the "alien invader" and the combined land, sea and air might of the U.S. military is sent to demolish the giant. The result: an incredible adventure that's part metal, part magic, all heart.

Enjoyed this excellent animation, not for any groundbreaking technology but for a thoughtful, fun storyline that you couldn't hate even if you tried. The film has a huge heart and is not sickly sweet like the latest Disneys, it has genuine humour and feeling, adventurous and blessed with a pace that makes the film feel like it has ended too quickly. Congratulations to the director, and the host of voices who bring this movie alive.
Perfect for all ages
 



**Jennifer Aniston mini-marathon


(From Riches Random Reviews on August 30th, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

The Nanny: Season One (1993/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia (Canada) Length: 515 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Plot:
Fran Drescher, Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane, Nicholle Tom, Benjamin Salisbury, Madeline Zima, and Renee Taylor star in this hilarious sitcom about the nanny with the face from Vogue and the voice from Queens. This DVD collection includes all 22 episodes from the first season of this hilarious show. Fran Drescher stars in her defining role as street-smart Fran Fine, a diva down-on-her-luck who finds herself hired for a job she never even applied for! Now, she's the nanny for a rich, sophisticated family in Manhattan, and when this blue-collar girl from the block moves in with the blue blood, widowed Broadway producer and his three children, comedy is red hot!


The Nanny
1.01 Pilot
Writer: Peter Marc Jacobson (Original Characters By), Fran Drescher (Original Characters By), Peter Marc Jacobson (Screenwriter), Robert Sternin (Screenwriter), Prudence Fraser (Screenwriter), Fran Drescher (Original Material By), Peter Marc Jacobson (Original Material By)
Director: Lee Shallat
Cast

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 13th, 2012)