The Rewrite - review

Fifteen years after writing an Oscar winning movie, Keith Michaels is at a loss. Divorced and lacking focus in life, when his agent tells him she’s struggling to find him a new project but has found him a screenwriting job at a University in Binghamton, he reluctantly accepts.

Moving away from Hollywood, Keith has no idea what awaits him in a town he’s never heard of, but when he meets fellow educators and manages to get on the wrong side of the head of the ethics committee as well as waking up next to one of his students the next day, he knows he has work to do.

Faced with a box of screenplays to read before he can start teaching, Keith finds his own way of completing this task and armed with a class of mainly female students, he starts on his journey as a teacher, but has no idea what to do.

Encouraged by mature student Holly to talk about what inspired him to write the movie Paradise Misplaced, Keith finds himself reaching into his past to rediscover what mattered to him when he was writing and how to inspire his students.

As a Hugh Grant fan, I have to be honest that this wasn’t one of his best movies, but I enjoyed it anyway. Co-starring Marisa Tomei and Alison Janney, this movie was a good watch which I could and would watch again, but feel that with age, Hugh is starting to lose his rom-com charm.

Only You - review

Faith (Marisa Tomei) has always believed in destiny and that everyone has a soul-mate. So when as a child the name ‘Damon Bradley’ is spelt out on an Ouija board and a fairground psychic also confirms the name, she’s convinced he is the one for her.

Years later as a newly engaged young woman, Faith has never forgotten the name spelt out during her childhood, so when she answers the phone to a man with the name of ‘Damon Bradley’, she sets off with her best friend Kate (Bonnie Hunt) to track him down.

Still wearing her wedding dress from a fitting, the only clue Faith has is that Damon is on his way to Venice, so with her best friend by her side they set off to find him in the hope that Faith will meet her soul-mate, but when they discover shortly after arriving that he has already checked out of his hotel they face a race across Italy to find the man Faith is destined to be with.

But with Faith convinced Damon Bradley is the only one for her, is her obsession clouding her judgement of love when another man presents himself to her?

This rom-com was slightly unrealistic in places, but enjoyable just the same.

With stunning views of both Venice & Rome – although the famous Trevi Fountain wasn’t featured – throughout the movie, it convinced me that I need to visit Italy one day and who knows; just like Faith maybe I’ll meet my true love!