Tamara Drew
An 'ugly duckling' has a nose job and returns to her home town looking like Gemma Arterton. No longer having a beak like nose Tamara Drew is able to sleep with a couple of men including a rock star and a popular author of mystery novels, pushing off the reconciliation with her childhood sweetheart until the end. There are also subplots about the cheating mystery novelist's much put upon wife and a visiting American English professor, as well as two 15 year old girls and there efforts to meet Tamara's new rock star boyfriend. I've been trying to think of the word to describe the mood or pace of the movie, and I've hit on comfortable. The movie is one you can just be in, the plots not that important and you don't care if it just winds along slowly, though the resolution seemed a bit too quick.
Grade: B
Contagion
Straight forward story, we've seen it before, a mysterious new virus starts up in a remote land (rural China) and spreads around the world. The handling here though is more realistic seeming then most film viruses, the virus comes across as feasible, the symptoms not of an exaggerated nature, and while it kills off tens of millions of people it doesn't apocalypticly crash human civilization (though it does cause a good bit of damage). It's like the story of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic in a contemporary context, and focuses on the outbreaks victims, profiteers, and the doctors who fight it. Films large and good cast includes Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburn, Jude Law and Kate Winslet. Dr. Sanjay Gupta cameos.
Grade: B+
I Married a Witch
Pro-generator to Bewitched. After having father and daughter witch's burned at the stake, a 17th century puritan is cursed with having all of his descendants end up unhappy in love. Fast forward 270 years and one such descendant (Fredrick March) is running for governor of an unspecified New England state. The tree that the two witch's spirits were trapped in is hit by lighting and they escape the night before candidate March's arranged marriage with the daughter of a newspaper magnate. Witch Jennifer incarnates herself as Veronica Lake (then at the height of her popularity) to tempt March and ruin his wedding, she accidentally drinks her own love potion and becomes devoted to him, much to the chagrin of her father Cecil Kellaway. Hijinks's ensue, 'true love' (though it was induced by a magic potion rendering the whole thing... odd) triumphs. Movie enhanced by the presence of Robert Benchley.
Grade: B-
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