This is an odd film staring Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick. It had more violence than I was expecting. It is a cross between a rom-com and an action/ hitmen gangster film.
3/10
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Parent Trap, The (1998)
This is a modernised remake of the 1961 film that starred Hayley Mills and Maureen O’Hara. In this version, Lindsay Lohan stars as twins who were separated as babies so that one lived with the mother and the other with the father, and meet up again when they are sent to the same summer camp. Natasha Richardson and Dennis Quaid star as the parents.
I found this version a lot funnier and more farcical than the original and the quality of the special effects was more advanced than before.
8/10
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Freaky Friday (2003)
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan star as the mother and daughter in this remake of the body swap family comedy.
The storyline and special effects are more developed from the earlier version.
6/10
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Freaky Friday (1976)
This is a mother-daughter body-swap comedy starring a young Jodie Foster as the daughter. They are both unhappy with their lives and wish they had the life of the other. They then need to live each other’s life without anyone else finding out, and then work out how to get back into the right body.
Due to the age of the film, the special effects feel a bit dated but it is reasonably amusing.
5/10
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
I this sequel the family have moved so that the machine can be developed by a large company.
The Szalinski family have a new todler son who they accudentially enlarge and he thrn escapes.
They have to try to get him back so they can shrink him back to normal size.
6/10
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
In this family comedy, 2 sets of neighbouring siblings are accidentally shrunk by an inventor’s machine, and have an adventure trying to alert their parents and get back to the right size.
7/10
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Still Life (2013)
This is a slightly depressing but interesting concept for a film. It stars Eddie Marsan as John May a kind, gentle but lonely local government employee whose job it is to deal with those who die alone in his district and try to trace their relatives to let them know or to arrange funerals for the deceased.
Due to cutbacks, he is told his services are not going to be needed, but that he can finish one last case.
6/10
In this funny romantic comedy sequel to Three Men and a Baby, Mary is now 6 years old, living with her mother, her “biological daddy” and her 2 “honourary daddies” in New York.
Her mother gets engaged and moved back to England with Mary to prepare for the wedding, and her fathers decide to try to stop it.
Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg and Nacy Travis reprise their roles from the original and are joined by Fiona Shaw, Christopher Casanove and Sheild Hancock.
8/10
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Williams (2017)
This is an interesting documentary about the Williams Formula one team. It focuses on its founder Frank Williams but also features the current boss his daughter Claire, the first female Team Principal in Formula One.
6/10
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City Lights (1931)
I watched this as part of the free members Curzon 12 selection. This is a silent black and white film with Charlie Chaplin who plays a tramp who falls in love with a blind flower seller. He finds out she is seriously ill and he tries to get the money needed to make her better.  He succeeds, but when police find him they try to arrest him as they think he stole it. He evades them long enough to give the girl the money but still ends up in jail. On his release, he visits her. She can see again and eventually realises he was the man who helped her.
4/10