LOVE ACTUALLY - Cable TV Film Review 10/12/06

One of those films you hear a lot about and have a spanking great cast with people like Hugh Grant and Bill Nighy that you never get around to seeing and then suddenly it becomes pre-festive Christmas fodder because it's "that time of year" and the setting of the film is surprise - Christmas. With similar films like "The Holiday" doing the cinema circuit at the moment this one was worth catching as a few year's had past and you could get all weepy about middle-age clashes of conscience, disintegrating relationships and obviously "love" actually. A disparate group of people threaded together very slightly in one way or another have a bittersweet shot at love as Christmas approaches. Entertaining in a slight way but labelled in the bargain-bin of life as a chick-flick.