You Give Me Something - Sarah Mitchell

Advantages: friendship flick
Disadvantages: 80s fashions, drug use, swearing

...look grown up, they give each other love bites. No comment. This is when the film took a bit of a turn for me. They get to the party and there?s a few guys there who are into drugs and Marina is soon being injected. I have to say I didn?t really like this, (OK I admit it, I'm a prude!) and obviously if you do watch this film and you have kids around, this isn?t one for them. At the same party, Holly finds herself in bed with Nat. Marina comes round from her drug induced haze and sees them together, and inevitably they argue. Fast forward again to 1982 ? Nat?s in love with Isobel and moves abroad for a while. Marina sports rather nasty blonde hair with black roots and wears long jumpers and invisible skirts. Both girls are at uni and both fancy their tutor, Daniel (Kyle Maclachlan). He ends up bedding both of them with both... Read review

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Advantages: Celia Imrie's always good value
Disadvantages: Incredibly bland

...maudlin string arrangements when things are sad, indie guitars that give it a mid-nineties sensibility and a louder one in a belated attempt to add excitement when events are hotting up. The soundtrack is similarly predictable, though there is at least a wedding reception on which one can blame the cheesy strains of "D.I.S.C.O.", "The Look of Love" and Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Right Round". But its use of "Imagine Me and You" is criminal. "Imagine Me and You" wants to be thought daring merely because it places a same-sex relationship centre stage. But the mediocre script, ordinary direction and distinctly average performances betray it as little more than yet another middle-brow rip-off of Richard Curtis' chocolate box pretty Middle England. The fact that the central relationship is a lesbian one is merely a gimmick that is pretending to... Read review

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Advantages: Jack Nicholson
Disadvantages: the trailers didn't do it justice

...My hub brought this home from our local DVD rental place. I could vaguely remember the trailers - the words that came to my mind were 'cheesy, american, comedy...suppose it'll be alright.' The fact that Jack Nicholson is in it definitely persuaded me to sit down and give this film a chance. The story.... Jack Nicholson plays a dirty old playboy - he is is the big cheese of a successful hip hop label, and enjoys his lavish lifestyle of partying and cavorting with lovely young women. He doesn't strike you as a particularly deep character to begin with. At the beginning we see Jack in an open top car driving another young lovely lass through the cheesy plastic american countryside, it turns out they are driving to her mothers place in the Hamptons for a dirty weekend no doubt - her mother is supposedly away. Well, needless to... Read review

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