Twelve Films at Christmas - 11 & 12

Today is the day that the cold realisation of no more bank holidays until Easter bites home. Not quite so bad for those of us who don't work anymore I suppose, but I feel your pain brother, I feel your pain. So we come to the last of the dozen, two movies that are good holiday fare but fall short of being excellent.

The Flying Deuces is not quite top notch Laurel and Hardy which is a pity because top notch L&H is right up there with the best of the Marx Brothers ie. monster. No matter, it is pacy and, most important of all, funny. 65/100. 

The good old-fashioned biopic doesn't really get made these days. That is to say, chronologies of a life, usually bordering on the hagiographic. These days there has to an angle. Which is fine, but sometimes you just want something warm and fuzzy. And that is precisely what you get with The Glenn Miller Story. The music is pretty ace too. 65/100.