Mini-Review: 'Drive' is ridiculously cool and overly stylised. Gosling does a fantastic job playing a part where saying so little says so much and the chemistry between him and Mulligan seems to leak out of the screen. There's perhaps not as much action as you might have hoped for, but it leaves the pacing feeling just right.

Mini-Review: Leaning a little more to the drama side of the 'dramedy' spectrum, don't expect a laugh a minute. The film starts off very strong - good character development and story carry you straight into a well constructed climax, sadly only to descend into a resolution awash with corny clichés and all the romcom pitfalls I'd hoped the film had managed to sidestep. Stone's role is potentially too small, but Carell does a good job as lead, with Gosling providing solid support.

Mini-Review: This film is heart-warming, charming, quirky and all those other sadly overused words. But it also happens to be watch-on-your-own-and-laugh-out-loud funny, with an absolutely stunning cast and (naturally) one hell of a soundtrack. My one complaint is that, for a film about rock 'n' roll, the storyline is annoyingly conformist to a standard Hollywood feel-good movie, which oddly - despite the cast and being set off the coast of Britain - makes it feel quite American. A boatload of fun, though.

Mini-Review: "The 'Hangover' of chick flicks", 'Bridesmaids' certainly has its moments. Wiig seems to have adopted the awkward attempt to humour that I thought we'd left in the last decade, but it works and she portrays a charming character who - for once in a comedy - actually has some depth. The move away from romcom towards whatever you'd call the female equivalent of a bromance is a good one and allows for some great backup characters and a refreshingly different take on your standard chick flick.

Mini-Review: Yes it's been done a million times before and it's clichéd and predictable and mindless and yes, these have sadly become traits we come to expect of a romcom. However, "Friends with Benefits" somehow manages to feel very "fresh" (as much as I hate the word). The humour is great and the characters are strong, even if there are some good secondary characters who sadly get relegated to the position of plot devices. It even manages to poke fun at itself, which can be kind of charming.