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XI Menhaj Huda, Kidulthood (2006)
School children are given a day off after the suicide of a bullied girl, and things go from bad to worse as scores are settled and a party becomes the site of sickening violence. A curious blend of tabloid inflaming British social realism and mockney gangster to add to the melodrama. Pretty depressing all round.
The curious element is that the brains behind it - writer and star - is Noel Clarke aka Mickey from Doctor Who, who has now directed Adulthood, presumably a sequel. Not my cup of tea.
XII George Cukor, Holiday (1938)
Heburn and Grant pairing - Johnny Case (Grant) has been on holiday and gotten engaged to Julia Seton (Doris Nolan), only to discover that she is the daughter of a rich business man. Case wants to marry and retire to discover himself, and then start work again later. Can he keep this branch of the family happy - or should he take the advice of her trapped sister Linda (Katharine Hepburn).
This has little of the playfulness of Bringing Up Baby, and all the best scnes take place in the nursery, or between Hepburn and two of Case's friends, Nick and Susan Potter (Edward Everett Horton and Jean Dixon), who feel like refugees from the Thin Man movies. Hepburn gets top billing, and she is the heart of the film.
Horton had played the same role in the 1930 version of the film, which I've not seen, It looks like Dixon got married after this film, and rarely acted again. Heigho.
XIII Charles Walters, Walk Don't Run (1966)
Late Cary Grant film, in fact his last, and a bum note to end on. Sir William Rutland is in Tokyo on business during the 1964 Olympics and cannot get a room for the night, so rents a room from Christine Easson (Samantha Eggar). He then meets an athlete, Steve (Jim) who also needs a room and sublets his. Everyone gets confused and Grant plays matchmaker.
Thank god it veers away from having Grant and Eggar match up; there is a little funny business with Grant being shut out of the apartment and having to climb back in (he's the athlete), but it's just dull. Grant then doesn't make any more movies until his death, twenty years later. Was he that put off? I must find out.
Totals: 13 [Cinema: 4; DVD: 9; TV: 0]
School children are given a day off after the suicide of a bullied girl, and things go from bad to worse as scores are settled and a party becomes the site of sickening violence. A curious blend of tabloid inflaming British social realism and mockney gangster to add to the melodrama. Pretty depressing all round.
The curious element is that the brains behind it - writer and star - is Noel Clarke aka Mickey from Doctor Who, who has now directed Adulthood, presumably a sequel. Not my cup of tea.
XII George Cukor, Holiday (1938)
Heburn and Grant pairing - Johnny Case (Grant) has been on holiday and gotten engaged to Julia Seton (Doris Nolan), only to discover that she is the daughter of a rich business man. Case wants to marry and retire to discover himself, and then start work again later. Can he keep this branch of the family happy - or should he take the advice of her trapped sister Linda (Katharine Hepburn).
This has little of the playfulness of Bringing Up Baby, and all the best scnes take place in the nursery, or between Hepburn and two of Case's friends, Nick and Susan Potter (Edward Everett Horton and Jean Dixon), who feel like refugees from the Thin Man movies. Hepburn gets top billing, and she is the heart of the film.
Horton had played the same role in the 1930 version of the film, which I've not seen, It looks like Dixon got married after this film, and rarely acted again. Heigho.
XIII Charles Walters, Walk Don't Run (1966)
Late Cary Grant film, in fact his last, and a bum note to end on. Sir William Rutland is in Tokyo on business during the 1964 Olympics and cannot get a room for the night, so rents a room from Christine Easson (Samantha Eggar). He then meets an athlete, Steve (Jim) who also needs a room and sublets his. Everyone gets confused and Grant plays matchmaker.
Thank god it veers away from having Grant and Eggar match up; there is a little funny business with Grant being shut out of the apartment and having to climb back in (he's the athlete), but it's just dull. Grant then doesn't make any more movies until his death, twenty years later. Was he that put off? I must find out.
Totals: 13 [Cinema: 4; DVD: 9; TV: 0]
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