NEWS… Welcome to the First Day of the Mismatched Couples Blogathon

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It’s the opening day of Barry and my blogathon…

 

Read on, as we are joined by some bloggers with reviews about unlikely couples who were matched up in movies and TV.

 

Pretty in Pink

 

Stuck for something to do on your spring break? Or just remembered that it’s Day 1 of the Mismatched Couples blogathon with me and Barry at Cinematic Catharsis…? Don’t worry there is still time to join us and a cinema full of bloggers for this blogathon where we celebrate mismatched couples of all kinds on screen in films and TV.

So CLICK HERE to grab a banner and to read those rules before you join. Then before sending your choice, there’s also a page HERE to discover who has been picked as a mismatched couple and in what movie or TV show… so remember these choices have gone before adding your request. But do know, that plenty of choices are still out there… and you’ve just three days to review it.

Please note speculation about real-life starry mismatched couples’ off-screen lives is not allowed, but their movies and TV are as long as you don’t comment on their off-screen true stories… so you can have Overboard (1987) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) but not mention Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell or Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’s private lives. If you do mention this, we won’t allow it…

Please tell us if you are running late and when we can expect your post… days are fine, but not a year. Or if you have made a last-minute change to your blogathon choice, we will only allow this if it’s not been chosen already and has been approved by us.

Now click on the blue links and read those wonderful reviews…

Gill at Realweegiemidget Reviews – aka yours truly – launches the blogathon with Kuolleet Lehdet 7 Fallen Leaves (2023) – aka the Finnish Oscar touted movie – with my pairing of Ansa (Alma Pöysti) and Hoppola (Jussi Vatanen)…

Fallen Leaves (2023)

 

Dan at Crimson Kimono continues the David Duchovny theme (seen in my featured pic) but here he is Bill with Meg Ryan as Willa (2023) in What Happens Later (2023)…

 

Quiggy at the Midnite Drive In shares his thoughts on A Boy and His Dog (1975) and his pairing of Vic (Don Johnson) and his dog…

 

Andrew at The Stop Button tells us about the movie, The Odd Couple (1968) with his pairing of Oscar (Walter Matthau) and Felix (Jack Lemmon).

 

John at UK Film Nerd adds his Enemy Mine (1985) post with his choice of Davidge and Drac to the proceedings.

 

Terence at A Shroud of Thoughts reviews The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery? (2000) and his choice of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.

 

Ruth at Silver Screenings joins with her mismatched buddies in Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) road movie with and her pairing Howard Duff and Dan Duryea.

 

Mitchell at It’s About TV tells us more about Harry O. (1974-76) and his choice of Harry Orwell (David Janssen) and Lt. Trench (Anthony Zerbe).

 

And there are more to come, from this lovely lot…

Barry at Cinematic Catharsis… Pink Flamingos (1972) with his pairing of Edith Massey as Edie (“The Egg Lady”) and Paul Swift as The Egg Man.

John at Tales from the Freakboy Zone… Popular (1999-2001) (TV Series) and his pairing of Brooke McQueen (Leslie Bibb) and Sam McPherson (Carly Pope).

Erin at Cinematic Scribblings… La Visita (1963) and her pairing of Pina (Sandra Milo) and Adolfo (François Périer).

Kayla at Whimsically Classic… the mismatched couples in the two films in the Grumpy Old Men series, Grumpy Old Men (1993) and Grumpier Old Men (1995).

David at David Ferguson… The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) and his pairing of Padraic and Colm.

Carol at The Old Hollywood Garden… The More the Merrier (1943) and her pairing of Joel McCrea and Jean Arthur.

Eddie at Film Authority… The Enforcer (1976) and his pairing of Clint Eastwood and Tyne Daly.

Brian at Beyond the Time Barrier…  Devil Doll (1964) and his pairing of The Great Vorelli (Bryant Haliday) and Hugo (Sadie Corre).

Le at Critica Retro… In the Heat of the Night (1967) and her pairing of  Virgil Tibbs and Bill Gillespie.

Emily at The Flapper Dame… High School Musical (2006) and her pairing of Troy and Gabriella.

TigerheartsTales​…  Reanimator (1985) and their pairing of Herbert West and Dan Cain.

Chris at Angelman’s Place… The Out of Towners (1970) and his choice of Sandy Dennis and Jack Lemmon.

Kurt at Unknown Hollywood… Yancy Derringer (1958) and his choice of “an unlikely pairing of the dapper, cool and fluid Jock Mahoney with his emotionless and silent Pawnee Indian sidekick, Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah played by X Brands.”

Virginie at The Wonderful World of Cinema… What a Carve Up! (1961) and her choice of Syd Butler (Sid James) and Ernest Broughton (Kenneth Connor).

Rebecca at Taking Up Room… Lilies in the Field (1961) and her choice of Homer and Mother Superior.

Kristen at Hoofersandhoneys…  Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) and On the Town (1949) and her choice of Frank Sinatra and Betty Garrett’s characters in both movies.

Daffny at A Vintage Nerd… Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973) and her choice of  Lila Fisher (Maggie Smith) and Walter Elbertson (Timothy Bottoms).

Debbie at Moon in Gemini… Friends (1994-2004) and her choice of Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Janice (Maggie Wheeler).

Black Cats & Poppies… Fatso (1980) and their choice of Lydia and Dominick.

Toni Ruberto… Rampage (2018) and her choice of Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson) and George the gorilla also Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson) and “the cowboy-like government agent” Harvey Russell, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Sally at 1​8 Cinema Lane… Easter Parade (1948) and the Judy Garland and Fred Astaire characters.

Eric at Diary of a Movie Maniac… Road to Singapore (1940) and Road to Zanzibar (1941) with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

 

Comment away and give all these bloggers some support for their wonderfully researched posts…

See you tomorrow with more mismatched couples and some fantastic writers… if you want to join another blogathon, click on this title now… and you will be transported to details of the It’s In the Name of the Title Blogathon…