Flick of the Day

Film: SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE

Director: Nora Ephron

Actors: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Rosie O'Donnell, Bill Pullman, Rita Wilson, Gaby Hoffmann, Rob Reiner, Victor Garber, Carey Lowell, David Hyde Pierce, Frances Conroy

Year: 1993

Synopsis: A young boy calls a radio show to help his widowed father find love again.

It's the perfect New Year's movie with the original pairing of superstars Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. It's romantic and funny and touching... and nothing beats the last scene. Hanks and Ryan are great, but it's the littlest actors Ross Malinger and Gaby Hoffmann who will keep you smiling.

Performance of the Day

Actor: EDWARD NORTON

Character: Gerald

Film: "Stone"

Year: 2010

Edward Norton has long been one of my favorite actors. He has shown his versatility with a wide range of characters over the last fifteen years. His most recent venture into cinema world was the little-known drama/thriller "Stone". Costarring Robert De Niro, Milla Jovovich, and (a tremendous) Frances Conroy, Norton takes over the screen with his portrayal of a manipulative convict.

Skip It

Film: NEW IN TOWN

Director: Jonas Elmer

Actors: Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr, Siobhan Fallon, J.K. Simmons, Frances Conroy

Year: 2009

I think, perhaps, Renee Zellweger has run her course. She hasn't been in a good movie since 2005's "Cinderella Man" (I'm not counting "Leatherheads" because I am pretending she wasn't in it). This snooze-fest is about an ambitious woman who travels to a small Minnesota town to help restructure a factory. Even that sounds boring. Harry Connick Jr, who I actually liked in "Hope Floats" and "Little Man Tate", is dull as a single father who... you guessed it, falls for scrunch-face-Zellweger. If you're interested in the prissy-lady-out-of-her-element kind of thing, Netflix "Overboard".