Chatterbox - still talking nonsense

This is just a big bucket of some films I have enjoyed over 2024 where I haven't already published my jottings.  I did try categorising them, and have ended up with just two big buckets but even then I had so many arguments with myself because so often they could fit in more than one group so take the categories with a pinch of salt.  This grouping is romance, relationships. coming of age and family drama.  There are some other films I saw this year I have already written about here , here and here , plus some more recent musings on films in the drama and action bucket here Rare Beasts:  strange anti-romcom directed by and starring Billie Piper.  I spent a lot of time laughing uncomfortably, never quite sure whether I was supposed to be taking it seriously or not.  But this weird little film confirms to me what an interesting artist Piper is.   Joyride: Well it has Olivia Coleman in it - do I need to say anything else?  Coleman plays a singl...