Joan Collins is back on the big screen starring with another favorite Brit actor Academy Award Nominee Pauline Collins (no relation!) who will always be Shirley Valentine to us.

Dame Joan and Pauline’s new feel-good comedy is The Time Of Your Lives in which Joan plays a former Hollywood siren (go figure!) who is now broke and living in a Seniors Home in London.  When she gets news that her ex-lover’s funeral is about to be held in the glamorous French hideaway of Îe-de-Ré, she is determined to gatecrash it.  She bullies Pauline who plays a repressed housewife and one of the home’s carers, to join her in this mad-cap adventure which includes picking up a reclusive Italian millionaire (Franco Nero) along the way.

It kind of smacks of being an Absolutely Fabulous ‘Lite’, and could be the campiest movie of the year. It is being released in the UK next month, and as there is no word of a global release yet,  keep watching this space.