TEEN SPIRIT
Watchable. Predictable but well-made by 34-year-old actor Max Minghella. Elle Fanning looks and acts plausibly Polish, her Polish language is sometimes incomprehensible at all, sometimes astoundingly apt and sometimes has a strong English accent. In fact her lines had to be rewritten by the Polish staff on set because what she had been taught in the US before flying into the UK sounded so unnatural no Pole would say it. Also her name: Violet Valenski sounds like an umpteenth generation American, not a Polish-born Brit. Witty dialogues do a good job. Music, as expected, gets better and better. Still, it's no quality onto itself. The pictures look too dark at times. The ending implies a sequel. I'd rather they stopped at part one.
POLAROID
Watchable. Boring - and it's a horror! Very run-of-the mill plot. Cheap-looking spooks. I barely sat through it till the end. It gave me an after-effect in the form of getting scared at the sight of mirrors and window panes though.
FIVE FEET APART
Watchable. Two terminally ill teenagers in love - can anything be tackier than this? Fortunately the nurses are sweethearts and Cole Sprouse who impersonates Will is remarkably good-looking. Cynthia Evans who acts as the girl's mum looks so young at first I thought she was a school friend.
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