Una is home sick. 
( Too much time around fire-breathing dragons, I guess. )

Where Una decides she will never be a fan of the Dream Dance Sequence.

Where Grace and Charm meet, you get Fred Astaire.  Where Grace meets Athleticism, you get Figure Skating.  But for Grace, Charm, and Athleticism, you need Gene Kelly.  Even when the man was standing still, it was like he was dancing.

There's a great opening sequence in An American ( Read more... )

Friends-Only Since December, 2009.

Please to be commenting if you wish to be added.  And pray, make it improbable.

Where Una sees the finest assemblage of actors with names that end with 'e'.There isn't much I could tell you about All About Eve that hasn't already been said. It has killer performances, spot-on casting, and a script filled with lines that have not only become part of the pop culture landscape, but that make you wish you'd thought of them ( Read more... )

Where Una wonders when this guy’s gonna get hit over the head with a frying pan and retain the pan’s shape.
I watched AtKM waaaaaaay back in February, and what stands out in my mind now is the cartoonish transformation of the main character in this movie. (Played very well by Oscar winner Broderick Crawford - it’s the screenplay’s treatment that ( Read more... )

I am many many moons and 5 (5!!!) watched movies behind right now in posting for my Oscar Project.  One of these was watched during Oscar week, if that gives you any indication of how far behind I am at the moment ( Read more... )

Where Una falls asleep four times in attempting to finish this movie, and decides that is her limit.

O, that this too, too somnolent movie would wake up.  To sleep, perchance to dream that a too-old-for-the-role petulant Olivier in a bad wig is the definitive Hamlet.

I can't necessarily define a movie by the fact that I couldn't stay awake through it ( Read more... )

Where Una discovers everyone's a little bit racist.  Except Gregory Peck.

Gregory Peck plays widower writer, Schuyler (pronounced 'Skylar') Green, who moves to New York with his inquisitive son and no-nonsense mother and is disappointed to learn that his first assignment at a liberal magazine will be to blow the lid off of anti-semitism.  Then he ( Read more... )

As mentioned on my facebook status, Miss B is having Night Terrors, so I am playing online between them.  I'm afraid each time that this one will be a return of the vomitting from this morning.  Better Night Terrors than puking, sez I.  That's seeing the glass half-full looking on the bright side, I guess.

Oscar night was fun in a low-key way.  ( Read more... )

Where Una gets the snark knocked out from under her.  Kinda.

I've been exposed to this movie before courtesy of Turner Classic Movie Channel, and have to admit I was predisposed to hate it.  For one thing, the run time is 172 minutes.  Nearly 3 hours, and not especially engrossing hours at that.  I was all set with the tagline:  Where Una feels as ( Read more... )