Showing posts with label Diane Keaton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diane Keaton. Show all posts

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Harrison Ford Movie Review: **** Morning Glory (2010)

 Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford) is a seasoned journalist who has considerable experience, and feels he is abov doing a morning show; so when they opportunity comes to him he balks, but agrees not because of interest but because of his contract.  Becky (Rachel McAdams) has been hired as the Morning show producer, and wants to prove herself.  Jerry Barnes (Jeff Goldblum) is her boss.  Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton) is the female anchor who has been there for sometime.  She and Pomeroy quickly develop a feud because most stories are beneath Pomeroy who she has to cover.  The movie for the most part is about the developing relationship between Beck and Pomeroy.  The show is scheduled to be cancelled, but because of many antics, and Pomeroy gong out and getting the scoop on a real story, the ratings come up and they get another year.  Becky gets a job offer from a network, and at first she things her current relationships are worth preserving.  But in the end she goes to interview.  Pomeroy does a cooking class.  This is his way of telling her that he would like her to stay, because cooking stories he always considered beneath him.  

I enjoyed this movie.  Harrison ford is actually very good in it.  Rachel McAdams also is very good.  The relationship they develop carries the movie.  



Sunday, June 19, 2016

Movie Review: Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride II

Father of the Bride movie has plenty of fun.  Steve Martin portrays George Banks, the father of the bride, who is having difficulty letting go of his daughter.  At the same time, he is selling his home as the family is down sizing, but he is having a hard time letting go of the house as well.  Diane Keaton stars as Nina Banks, and Martin Short as Franck, the wedding planner.  There is lots of fun.  Some of the best father scenes take place on the family basketball court.  When the demolishers show up to knock down the house, Steve Martin has a change of heart, and buys they house back, with a new mortgage.

Father of the Bride II is even more fun.  In this film we are presented with not only the daughter having a new baby, but also George's wife.   Martin Short is back to plan a new nursery as well as a baby party.  This movie is even funnier than the first, and shows parenting in a new light, as a grandfather, and father of a new baby.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Christmas Movie Review: *The Family Stone

This movie was not only predictable, it belittled those who didn't agree with the moral standards of the movie calling them assholes.  The story is pleasant, but I don' think I will ever watch it again.