Scoop (2006) 
Not up to par with Woody Allen's other movies but still watchable.
Scarlett Johansson stars as Sondra Pransky a young journalism student in London who attends the magic show of magician Sidney Waterman. While participating in one of his tricks, deceased journalist Joe Strombel appears to her and tells her that British aristocrat Peter Lyman is really the Tarot Card killer. Sondra enlists the help of Sidney to find out about Lyman and if he is in fact the killer.
Johansson is pretty solid here but Allen's twitchy performance is getting to be annoying. I wish he would concentrate on writing which he has an enormous talent for. Hugh Jackman as Peter Lyman and Ian MacShane as the ghost were both fine in their respective parts. Entertaining enough movie to while away a deary afternoon.
The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
John Wayne plays Sgt. Stryker a tough marine drill Sgt. who trains men to fight in the Pacific.
His men become resentful of his hard line command and one in particular, Peter Conway is very resentful having joined the Marines because it was expected of him.
John Wayne is excellent as Sgt. Stryker. I think this is the best acting I've seen from him in the movies that I've seen so far. The rest of the cast were uniformly good except for John Agar who's character just irritated me. I started watching Clint Eastwood's Flags of Iwo Jima but just couldn't get into the movie so ended up turning it off. Enjoying this movie makes me want to try watching Flags of Iwo Jima again. The classic scene at the end was very well done and brought a tear to my eye. I think what could have been a standard war movie was elevated by John Wayne's performance.