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27 Dresses, a review by addicted2dvd

27 Dresses: Full Screen Edition (2008/United States) Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Director: Anne Fletcher Writing: Aline Brosh McKenna (Writer) Length: 111 min. Rating: Rated PG-13 : Language, Some Innuendo and Sexuality Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Brian Kerwin as Hal
Charli Barcena as Young Tess
Payton Roi List as Young Jane
Jane Pfitsch as Cousin Lisa
Katherine Heigl as Jane
Jennifer Lim as Bridal Salesgirl #1

Plot:
Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up, TV's Grey's Anatomy) lights up the screen in this charming romantic comedy from the screenwriter of The Devil Wears Prada. Heigl stars as Jane, a romantic, completely selfless woman who's been a happy, helpful bridesmaid no less than 27 times. But her own fairy-tale wedding seems to be nowhere in sight, until younger sister Tess (Malin Akerman) captures the heart of Jane's boss (Edward BurnsExtras:

• Scene Access
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Closed Captioned

This film was in a box of DVDs that was recently given to me. Unfortunately it is the full screen version... but at least I am able to use it to see if I like the movie for a possible upgrade to the widescreen version. And I did like it... I liked it quite a bit. Of course that could have something to do with the fact that I am a fan of Katherine Heigl. I have enjoyed her work since she was in the TV Series Roswell. Then I also thought she was great in the series Grey's Anatomy. I would really like to see her get another TV Series. Yes... this movie is very predictable... but then what Romantic Comedy isn't? In my eyes romantic comedies isn't about the ending... but the journey leading up to it. And this one I found to be a lot of fun.

I have read other reviews for this movie... and for the most part they seem to agree that this one is nothing special... bordering on boring. Well, what can I say? This isn't the first time I seemed to be the only one to enjoy something a lot. But that does tell me to be cautious in recommending it. So I would have to tell people to try catching it on cable or something. Don't buy this movie on my review alone. But I do see myself upgrading it to widescreen if I get a chance.




(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched DVDs on November 6th, 2011)

It's Love I'm After, a review by Antares

It's Love I'm After (1937) 4/5 - This months star of the month on TCM is Leslie Howard, an actor whom I've only seen in a handful of films. I was bored last night and just caught the beginning of this film. I wasn't going to watch it, but somehow it started to draw me in, and am I glad it did. It's a shame that this film is never mentioned when the list of great screwball comedies is being compiled. Howard and Bette Davis have excellent comedic timing, and Olivia De Havilland is perky without being overly saccharine. But the real star of this film is Eric Blore, who steals almost every scene he is in. It's a story about two actors, Basil Underwood & Joyce Arden (Howard & Davis) who are in love, but tend to drive each other crazy. They've been slated for the altar many times, but have always found a reason for putting their nuptials on the back burner. After a performance of Romeo and Juliet, and an ensuing argument and reconciliation, they decide to marry the next day, which is New Year's Day. But another fly in the ointment appears in the guise of Henry Grant (Patric Knowles), the fiance of a love struck ingenue named Marcia West (De Havilland), who is completely smitten with Underwood. Grant blames Underwood for his troubles with his fiance and is looking for some kind of restitution. Underwood realizes that Grant is the son of a prominent banker who helped him during the stock market crash of 1929, and promises to make everything right with Grant and Miss West. He will portray for Miss West's benefit, the most vicious cad he can conjure up from a lifetime of acting performances, and help send her scurrying back to Grant. He will do this with the help of his devoted valet Digges (Played magnificently by Eric Blore), who together, re-enact scenes and scenarios from various stage plays which seem to fit the mold of the situation at hand.

But things go wrong when he arrives at the West's mansion uninvited and unannounced. The more callous he appears, the more forgiving Miss West is of his boorish behavior, explaining that a man of his talents is beyond reproach, and she falls ever more in love with him. It's at this point when the film really takes off as Digges hatches a plan to get Miss Arden to the mansion to help extricate his master from the hole he's digging for himself. But when she arrives, and catches Underwood swooning over the young girl, she decides to teach him a lesson and helps to keep the two together, knowing that Underwood will quickly tire of the young girl's affections. From here on out, the laughs comes fast and furious, and many times I found myself laughing hysterically at the reactions of both Underwood and Digges to the calamity engulfing them. How this film is not mentioned in the same breath as Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey and His Girl Friday is beyond me. It has everything you could want in a screwball comedy...top notch performances, gut busting laughter and a first rate screenplay. If you can find it, I heartily suggest you seek it out, it's a forgotten gem of the screwball era.

(From Antares' Short Summations on July 11th, 2012)

NCIS Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

1. SEE NO EVIL
The race is on as the N.C.I.S. team attempts to rescue a Navy captain's kidnapped wife and his blind 9-year-old daughter.

My Thoughts:
This is an excellent episode. One of my favorites. Not only does the little blind girl impress you. But the first time I watched this one I did not see this ending coming.

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2. THE G00D WIVES CLUB
The N.C.I.S. team investigates the bizarre discovery of a dead woman wearing a wedding dress found in a subterranean prison cell made to resemble a 1950s bedroom.

My Thoughts:
A very good episode. Other then the main storyline... McGee gets teased for reading women's magazines... DiNozzo and Kate still going at it. Once again I didn't see the ending coming when I first watched this one. Which of course is always a good thing.

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3. VANISHED
Gibbs and the N.C.I.S. team investigate a helicopter that's discovered sitting in the middle of a crop circle...with both pilots missing.

My Thoughts:
A good... but not great episode. I didn't care about the story or the characters as much this time around.

My Rating:

4. LT. JANE DOE
Ducky (David McCallum) links the rape and murder of a woman to a similar unsolved murder that has been haunting him for 10 years.

My Thoughts:
Another good episode. Ducky hides the connection between the recent rape/murder and the one 10 years earlier until he is sure he is right. In this one Tony must face some bad karma when he doesn't return a little extra change he got in a drive-thru.

My Rating:

(From NCIS Marathon on November 29th, 2009)