Wonder (2017)

When the dog gets sick is about when I started to grow impatient with the many many trials and tribulations of this movie's schoolkids, but the movie, an adaptation of R J Palacio's 2012 book about Auggie, a 10-year-old with Treacher Collins syndrome, has nice performances, often tugs at your heartstrings, and while it may not really be the soaring feelgood hit it is touted to be in advertising, it is certainly as entertaining as, say, an episode of The Wonder Years.

★★★☆☆

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Sleeping With The Enemy (1991)

A victim of an abusive partner fakes her own death and flees his creepy towel- and kitchen pantry-tidying ways, but we know he will catch up with her one day, living her new life in an easy, folksy South where the new hunk next door probably just hasn't revealed his own particular brand of woman-hate yet, in this 1989 thriller that bookends a long dull romance with scenes of sanitised spousal abuse - watch Murdered By My Boyfriend for the stomach-churning no-holds-barred reality of these controlling, deadly relationships.

★★☆☆☆

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My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

This daggy, feel-good romantic comedy has a nasty edge with Julia Roberts out to sabotage her true love, Dermot Mulroney's wedding but it all turns out ok and there is hilarity along the way plus daggy songs, big hair, suitcase-sized mobile phones, and hideous outfits.

★★★★☆

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Eat Pray Love (2010)

Eat Pray Love "First. World. Problems." could easily be the third of the Sex And The City movies with Julia Roberts playing an oh-so-clever Carrie Bradshaw type capable of slipping effortlessly into other cultures (in Italy, India, and Bali), extracting from them a profound one or two sentences to tap into her laptop before returning again to her main preoccupation - herself.

★★☆☆☆

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