Dial M For MURDER!!! in 3D

Last night myself and a friend went to our local cinema to watch a special screening of Dial M For Murder in miraculous 3D. I had seen the film previously but jumped at a chance to watch it on the big screen. There weren't that many people in the cinema which was a disappointment as i presumed there would be more fans of the Hitchcock masterpiece that would be ecstatic to experience such a thing. There were many elderly couples going to watch the film which made me happy and content with thinking that they may have seen it on the big screen the first time around and watching it now is like revisiting their youth and reliving history.


Dial M For Murder is a 1954 film by Alfred Hitchcock, the film revolves around a not-so-happily-but-happily married couple Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) and Margot Mary Wendice (Grace Kelly). Margot is having an affair and is being blackmailed for it by a mysterious being, Tony is infact this mysterious being and blackmailed her to try to make her confess when she doesn't he blackmails a criminal in killing her with the perfect murder that he has planned down to the very last detail and has been for months. When the "perfect" murder is being carried out and Margot is being strangled she manages to grab a pair of scissors from the desk and stab her attacker. Tony tries to cover his tracks as the police get involved and start to point the finger at Margot saying that she killed the attacker because he was blackmailing her about the affair, she is sent to jail and will be executed. Conveniently the day before her execution the detective does more snooping and starts suspecting Tony and then there is a whole kerfuffle with keys and different keys and his key and her key and the killers key and the key on the stairs etc it boils down to who let themselves in with the right key is the real criminal.

The 3D in this film wasn't so great because it only really added layers to the film of which there already were because of set have a what looked like a green screen background. The only scene of which stood out because of the 3D to me was the scene is this picture with the hand coming out of the screen to grab for anything that may help save her life.....it was brilliant to see that.




I do belive it was the entire reason that they chose this film to make into 3D and all because of that hand.The atmosphere from the cinema was amazing, everyone was laughing and silently screaming all at the same time. Watching the film the second time around was a lot more interesting because you pick up on a lot more of the little quirks and details put into the film, you also spend a lot more time thinking about the brilliance of the murder and just how cunning Tony is rather that thinking about how they came to the final conclusion and what slipped him up.

I never really noticed this before but the music for the opening credit is the complete antithesis of the actual film and rather makes it sound like a fun, bouncy comedy. I also took more time to appreciate the detective combing his mustache at the end, a quirk that I didn't really notice before.
There was also a real roar of laughter from the crowd when this "old college" photo came up.

Look at the three heads superimposed onto those bodies, it appears that Hitch had gone back to college.

I have never been Grace Kelly's biggest fan, I guess it was mostly because of Kelly's win at the academy awards rather than Judy Garland my fave and the favorite to win, I had also thought that her acting was perfectly average and that besides her beauty she never stood out and relied on other actors to carry the film. I have seen both The Country Girl and my beloved A Star Is Born and even though Kelly gave a fine performance, Garland had lived her role and put everything she had and had ever had into that role it had the basic structure of her life (if she had played James Masons role that is) I found it outrageous that she didn't win, it would have been the first academy award for best actress that she wold have won and it was not Kelly's fault I would have resented anyone that won against her. It was still like hollywood giving a middle finger to Garland's entire life's work. Due to my unfair dislike towards Kelly and the fact that I had started to rethink my views on her when I watched this film it made me think that out of all of the eleven films that she made I have only seen four and I should't judge her after only seeing four of her films, the films being:

• Rear Window
• Dial M For Murder
• To Carch a Thief
• High Society

I in fact own seven of her film but had never bothered to watch the other three so i decided that today I would watch all of the films of her that I had not seen these being:

• Fourteen Hours
• High Noon
• Mogambo
• The Country Girl
• Green Fire
• The Bridges at Toko-ri
• The Swan (I have been really excited to see this)

I am currently half-way through The Bridges at Toko-ri and have only The Swan to go and I am so excited. I am not sure whether I have changed my views on her but may make another post about this as this is just incredibly wordy and for that I am sorry.

I rate this Hitchcock thriller an 8.7 outta 10

Magical Musicals!!!

As you may or may not have guessed I am obsessed with musicals and anything with dancing that was choreographed from the heart. I'm just your average musical girl singing and dancing my way through life. Though I have noticed that some people do find it weird when I sing what I say and do a little jig and unfortunately not many join in but there are some who join in and gather a crowd  until there is a classical flash mob happening. Well today I will make a lovely list (I do love my lists) of all of the musicals I have seen, well the ones I can remember anyway.

1. Young At Heart
2. It Happened To Jane
3. The Thrill of It All
4. Top Hat
5. Swing Time
6. Pin Up Girl
7. The Dolly Sisters
8. The Gangs All Here
9. Orchestras Wives
10. Daddy Long Legs
11. Sun Valley Serenade
12. Oklahoma
13. The King And I
14. The Sound Of Music
15. State Fair
16. Love Finds Andy Hardy
17. Royal Wedding
18. Black And Tan
19. Gigi
20. Calamity Jane
21. The Wizard Of Oz
22. The Harvey Girls
23. An American In Paris
24. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
25. Annie Get Your Gun
26. Singin In The Rain
27. High Society
28. Meet Me In St Louis
29. For Me And My Gal
30. In The Good Old Summertime
31. Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
32. Lover Come Back
33. You Were Never Lovelier
34. Cover Girl
35. Babes In Arms
36. Girl Crazy
37. Strike Up The Band
38. Andy Hardy Meets Débutante
39. Life Begins For Andy Hardy
40. Babes On Broadway
41. A Star Is Born
42. Oliver!
43. West Side Story
44. Cabaret
45. Guys And Dolls
46. Easter Parade
47. Pillow Talk
48. There's No Business Like Show Business
49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
50. Lets Make Love
51. Some Like It Hot
52. Funny Face
53. My Fair Lady
54. Thoroughly Modern Millie
55. Three Smart Girls
56. First Love
57. 100 Men And A Girl
58. Can't Help Singing
59. Mad About Music
60. Three Smart Girls Grow Up
61. Because Of Him
62. The Pyjama Game
63. Kiss Me Kate
64. Two Weeks With Love
65. The Mating Game
66. The Unsinkable Molly Brown
67. Lullaby Of Broadway
68. Everybody Sing
69. Summer Stock
70. Little Nellie Kelly
71. I Love Melvin
72. Mister Big
73. Anything Goes
74. Cynthia
75. A Date With Judy
76. The Tender Trap
77. Anchors Aweigh
78. On The Town
79. Funny Girl
80. Every Sunday
81. Listen Darling
82. Let's Dance
83. The Jazz Singer

Those are all of the films that I believe to be of a musical nature and all of the ones I can remember. Well I hope that you comment saying if you have seen any of these or comment suggesting other musicals (I like cheesy mgm musicals like Two Weeks With Love or something like Kiss Me Kate which isn't really cheesy).

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

I know that I may be a little late with a happy new year blog but it is my first blog of the year so I decided to make it special. I am going to make a list of my favourite films I watched in 2012. I only properly started watching and obsessing over films this past year so the list may be a bit long....anyway I hope you enjoy my lovely little list.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)


Stage Door (1937)


Now Voyager (1942)


Grand Hotel (1932)



It happened one night (1934)


To kill a mockingbird (1962)


Marnie (1964) (one of my favourite Hitchcock films)


The Apartment (1960)


The Odd Couple (1968)


Wuthering Heights (1939)


Jezebel (1938)



Modern Times (1936)



The Harvey Girls (1946)



Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)



National Velvet (1944)



Who's Afraid Of Virgina Woolf (1966)



Camille (1936)



Don't Bother To Knock (1952)



Lassie Come Home (1943)



Three Smart Girls (1936)



First Love (1939)



Christmas Holiday (1944)



Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)



Wait Until Dark (1967)



Funny Girl (1968)



East of Eden (1955)



The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)



The Nun's Story (1959)



The Great Dictator (1940)



The Red Shoes (1948)



The Time Machine (1960)



The Man With The Golden Arm (1955)



Now these are only a few of my favourite films of the year because I can't remember if I watched the others before 2012.

Also you may have noticed a few films belonging to a certain actress which you may not have come across on this blog before.....yes you clever person you, Deanna Durbin I have come down with Durbin fever. She was a rival of Judy Garland's to some extent so I took a keen interest in her I then found out I had already watch a short film of hers featuring Judy Garland called "Every Sunday" she was charming in that film with a great voice she is probably my favourite classical voice while Judy is my favourite spunky voice. I ask for two volumes of her box set for christmas and loved every minute, I took a keen interest into "Christmas Holiday" and the others are wonderful I especially liked her rendition of Danny Boy in "Because of Him". Her acting talent as well is WOW. With some money I saved up I bought volume 3 and 4 of her box set and am loving every moment. You shall be hearing a lot more about her on my lovely blog.

I FINALLY OWN AN ACTORS ENTIRE FILMOGRAPHY!!!

Yes that is right I own someone's entire filmography.  Unfortunately that person is....James Dean. Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with owning all of James Deans film in fact i am over the moon, so happy I could cry. The only unfortunate thing is that the amount of films he made was very minimal, and by minimal I mean 3, They called these films the big 3. James Dean only made three films but these films made a big impact on society so I am proud to own anything this great. The three films he made were:

• East of Eden (1955)
• Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
• Giant (1956)

I like to call them the performance (East Of Eden), the iconic (Rebel Without A Cause) and the epic (Giant).
My personal favourite of his films is East of Eden which was the first of his films that I saw and was the first of the big three. I thought James Dean did his best performance in this film, actually I think his performance in this film is one of the best I have ever seen
James Dean only made three films because at the prime of his career he died in a horrific car crash at the age of 24. Even though he only did a small amount of films he made a big impact into film history and society.

Why Mickey Rooney is better than you

I am doing a post on Mickey Rooney...again(you shall be seeing a lot of him). Since I wanted to do a post for his birthday but missed it and now have to wait till next September for that post I decided to do one now on why Mickey Rooney is better than you, and by you I mean everyone. Now here are the reasons why...

1. Mickey Rooney played Puck in "A Midsummer Nights Dream" (1935). He is wearing a forest skirt this proves he is better than you.

2. He is incredibly fashionable proves this picture below. This is another reason to his greatness.

3. This is a picture of him as a child. More proof of his fashion sense even as a baby. This means he was also awesome as a child and nevertheless was born awesome instead of becoming awesome through age.

4. The ironic name for his book proving he is funny and better then you.

5. He was a Simpsons guest star. The character is also an incredibly accurate drawing of him.

6. He is also still working...at 92 making his career span ten decades. The respect I have for this man is unbelievable

7.For each one of his eight marriages, he was thoughtful enough to supply his own step stool for the wedding service proving his awesomeness.

8. This is a picture of Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken and Ed Fury


9. Was a victim of elder abuse and now speaks out about it to help others in the same situation. This is even more proof on why I respect him so much.

10. Knows Judy Garland they are the middle two of the photo.

11. Was on "What's my line"

12. Mickey Rooney even regrets the Breakfast at Tiffany's incident.

13. Plays Santa Claus so much that he apparently keeps a Santa suit in his wardrobe

14. This is a picture of MGM's actors in 1943 it includes Mickey Rooney. I am pretty sure that Mickey Rooney is the fourth one in on the second row. The reason that this makes him awesome is because MGM is awesome and thus he is awesome to.


15. He is Mickey Rooney, enough said.


These are the reasons why he is better then you, now you may understand.