1808 - I Could Never Be You Woman

It's always quite amazing when Hollywood casts someone like Michelle Pfeiffer to play a television show runner, and especially make us believe that she's out of her league in dating a younger man.  Let's cut the shit - Pfeiffer will be a smoking hot number at any age.  But whatever, I'll take it - I'll buy into your premise because I love Amy Heckerling and I adore the shit out of Paul Rudd.  If I'd picked this up randomly the Tracy Uhlman mother-nature rant that opens the film might have completely turned me off, but I stuck with it.
This film works because the cast pops.  Pfeiffer and Rudd are a solid pairing - and Saoirse Ronan is a goddamn scene stealer if ever there was one.  She's fantastic in every scene she's in, but the music parody bits are truly sensational.  Looking forward to seeking out more of her stuff. 
If I'm not giving it a glowing review is because it feels like they wanted this thing to be a big satire and take the piss out of society, but in truth only kind of went about it in a half-ass way.  Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to like about this flick, but it's not Heckerling's best.  I liked it, I just didn't love it.  But please judge for yourself - netflix it up!

1532 - Loser

I remember seeing this trailer in high school and wanting to see the film.  This was in the wake of American Pie and so these two actors, Mena Suvari and Jason Biggs were pretty hot shit at the time - now I had to google them to see what they'd been up to.
This film is more or less a rip-off of The Apartment, in that it's the story of a guy who lets himself get taken advantage of and watches the girl he's falling in love with be treated horribly by another man.  I'm sure if you beat out both stories you'd find it's almost an exact replica in terms of story mechanics.  And given that The Apartment is a hands-down fantastic film, you'd think that this film would be great as well.  Not so much.
For being a comedy I don't think I really laughed once.  Biggs and Suvari are fine here - but I have a hard time trying to figure out what the tone of the film is - it dips in and out of different kinds of comedy and never really makes any of them work.  It's not a horrible film, it's just a really really weak one - especially considering that it comes from Amy Heckerling.  And for some unknown reason it's full of cameos like Dan Akroyd and David Spade (and we get a glimpse of Alan Cummings playing Emcee in Cabaret!)
The only reason I could recommend it is if you live in Toronto and want to make a drinking game out of how many times the location they're in is so obviously Toronto and not New York.  Outside of that there are far better films you could be watching.
Loser