Wednesday, 4 June 2025

VOD: Lick (dir: Louise Alston, 2025)

"Rule number two: we do these conversations with our shirts off."

Saddled with an awful title, this silly book adaptation charts the unlikely romance of a young Portland student/barista who celebrates her birthday with her best friend and wakes up the next morning to discover that she has got married to a pretty-boy rock star.  Travis Burns acts via having his shirt off a lot of the time, Brooke Lee struggles to convince as a 21-year-old architect student, with the only real sign of life coming from Joseph McNabb as the band's likeable sparky drummer.  Not a lot of consequence happens as they try to discover if there is an actual relationship to be had, and - as is often the case with this type of nonsensical romantic drama - not one jot of it rings true for this deeply dull couple.
 

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