Top Five Movies To Watch With Your Bestie By Lindsey Kelk

Today on the book tour for Lindsey Kelk’s brand new book, ‘A Girl’s Best Friend’, Lindsey tells us what her top five films are to watch your best friend. Have you seen them all?

A Netflix binge is a magical thing for best friends. It’s a rite of passage we’ve been working on since we were kids and out mothers left us alone with The Little Mermaid, a box of Jaffa Cakes and two cartons of Ribena because quite frankly, she needed a break. Here are my favourite movies to watch with my friends.

An American Tail
My little immigrant! This is a Thanksgiving tradition for me and my friends in America, as well as an any day tradition for me and one of my UK besties. If your cockles aren’t warmed by the story of Fievel Mouskawitz and his family as they emigrate to New York then you have no soul and we can’t be friends. No, I’m not hyperbolizing, I love this movie.

The Covenant
Please go and google this movie immediately, I’ll wait right here. Done? OK then. A short synopsis would be a make version of The Craft, starring a pre-fame Taylor Kitsch, Sebastian Stan and Chace Crawford. A more accurate description would be a truly terrible movie about male witches with shockingly bad dialogue and plot holes big enough to swallow up the world. It fails the Bechdel test and it fails the ‘how did this get made?’ test but it did and it’s schlocky and awful and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Don’t ask too much questions, just have a drink, get your besties round, turn out the lights and stop thinking. OOOH, WITCHY.
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Beauty and The Beast
This really could be replaced with any Disney movie (except for Frozen, I just don’t get it) as a blanket-on-the-sofa-hot-chocolate-Sunday-singalong movie option but there’s something about Belle’s spunky story and that lecherous candelabra that makes me happy. Yes, Belle, there must be more than this provincial life, there must be.

Thelma and Louise
Cool chicks, Brad Pitt and a true tale of sisterhood. Plus it opens up all those fun conversations of ‘if I accidentally killed a man, would you go on the run with me?’ and that never goes badly.

Trainwreck
It’s a new entry but it’s one I feel good about. I loved this new take on the romcom from Amy Schumer. It was the first movie in a long time that felt as though it was telling the truth about modern women and the ways we choose to live our lives, not to mention the crippling commitmentphobia so many of us suffer; freaking out, it’s not just for dudes!

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