High Heels And Low Lifes (DVD)

High heels and low lifes. Thanks to Stella Screen Premiere Club, I was privileged enough to receive two tickets to the premiere of this movie. I struggled to find enthusiasm, as I am not a huge fan of British movies. It is not often I am forced to exuberate laughter at a volume that may be heard by others in the next screen room, but this movie had you rolling in the aisles. Directed by Mel Smith, of not The Nine `O’ Clock News fame, who had already achieved success with Bean and The Tall Man, High heels and Low Lifes had me transfixed to the screen within minutes. Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting, Grosse Point Blank) has ...  Read the complete review

A nurse ( Minnie Driver) and a struggling American actress (Mary McCormack) are cash-strapped London-dwelling friends who see their chance to make money when they intercept a phone call made from a robbery. With the proof on tape they attempt to blackmail the robbers, coming up against a ruthless gangster played by Michael Gambon. The film serves up the odd funny moment but no real belly laughs. The feisty femmes' hapless antics are endearingly amusing and roles for Mark Williams from The Fast Show and Big Train's Kevin Eldon up the comic ante. The plot is completely unbelievable and the girls wouldn't last five minutes in the real world messing with real ...  Read the complete review

Minnie Driver is the star of this Thelma&Louise-esque comic tale of big-money bank jobs and blackmail. Minnie plays Shannon, a honest and hard-working NHS nurse who, along with her best American friend, Frances (Mary McCormack), intercepts a phone call being made by a geezer who is in the process of assisting in a safety-deposit-box robbery. Having already attempted to report the incident to the police and not being believed on account of the fact that they are two drunk girlies, when they learn that the robbers netted £10m they decide to blackmail them for £300K. However things don't go quite as smoothly as the girls had hoped and soon ...  Read the complete review

Now I know why there are free preview tickets! Okay it was Wednesday, in theory the week is downhill from there. I had the worst day possible, I arrived late at work therefore had to leave a little late and who on earth runs a preview at 6:30pm! Come on some of us work. Arrive at the Odeon Cinema in Newcastle, for my first time and trust me my last time. Now I have not been to an Odeon Cinema in a while, and well they are getting worse. Greeted with a grunt and then shown to our seat . Now imagine if you would walking through the local tip. Can you hear all that crunching? Okay and imagine the worst laugh possible in the corner of the room. The kind of ...  Read the complete review

High Heels and Lowlifes is set in London so obviously it has criminals and crime as it's main plot. However unlike the wave of bad british crime films we've had to endure in the last year this film actually has a good cast and decent laughs. Minnie Driver plays Shannon, a hospital nurse who's burned out in her job. Her american friend is a struggling actress Frances (Mary McCormack). One night they overhear a gang robbing a bank thanks to a modern artist boyfriend and one totally inept young criminal. Instead of turning a blind eye they try to blackmail the robbers into getting some of the big loot that has been stolen. Naturally things don't go ...  Read the complete review