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Bridesmaids Review: The Marrying Kind

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Bridesmaids: On General Release From Friday 24th June

One of the rules of screenwriting is ‘Make your protagonist likeable’. It’s an old rule that really works and I’ve rarely seen it broken, or broken well to make me rethink its validity. In Kristin Wiig’s Bridesmaids, however, her character, long-time fuck-up Annie, is dangerously close to the edge of being a total dick. She’s selfish, disorganised, rude and self-destructive – not traditional qualities you look for in a leading lady, especially not one that’s the maid of honour for her best friend Lillian, played by Maya Rudolph. Do It!

The Back-Up Plan Review: A Little Premature

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THE BACK-UP PLAN: On General Release Friday 7th May

I think that by now we all know about Jennifer Lopez’s luck allergy when it comes to the films she chooses. Many of her features are either barely passable, guilty pleasures or throat-slittingly awful and after a break from moviemaking, it looks like Jenny from the block still hasn’t learned her lesson.

The Back-Up Plan sees Lopez as Zoe, a desperate woman whose lack of a man has left her turning to artificial insemination in order to get herself a baby. But as she leaves the clinic she has a meet cute with handsome market trader Stan (Alex O’Loughlin). Do It!