Tag: rom-com
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It’s Love vs Luxury in ‘Materialists’
‘Materialists’ could feel like a very basic romcom, a cliche tale of choosing between love and luxury, but its cynicism gives it a refreshing perspective.
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Sofia Coppola Fans Probably Won’t Love ‘On the Rocks’
Sofia Coppola stans might find ‘On the Rocks’ too mainstream and simple, but the chemistry between Bill Murray and Rashida Jones carries the story.
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‘Warm Bodies’ brings new life to teen romance genre
What do you get when you cross Romeo and Juliet with George Romero? You get a refreshingly original zombie romance in the form of Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies. Told from the POV of a teenage zombie who’s grown apathetic with his post-apocalyptic existence, Warm Bodies delivers a sweet, funny and fresh take on a classic…
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Played-out plot sinks ‘Friends With Kids’
When a movie touts the fact that it features “the cast of Bridesmaids”, it’s fair to assume it will be funny. Unfortunately Friends With Kids has a played-out and predictable storyline that keeps it from ever living up to the talents of its stars.
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Comedic talent underutilized in Hall Pass
Every romantic comedy walks the line between sappy and raunchy, trying to carefully balance the “guy humor” with the relationship stuff. It’s easy to stray a little too far into the romance and lose the laughs. This tightrope walk is never easy and, despite its talented cast, Hall Pass never really seems to find its…
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Audiences will fall in love with Charlyne Yi in Paper Heart
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen,” is how the great French writer Francois de La Rochefoucauld summed up love. Dictionary.com describes love as “a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.” T.S. Elliot gave his opinion on the subject at hand by stating “love is most nearly itself…
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500 Days of Summer a refreshing rom-com
This is a story about boy meets girl, but it is not a love story. This is what the narrator from the new romantic comedy, (500) Days of Summer, directed by Marc Webb and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, tells us at the start of the movie. The film centers around Tom Hansen (Gordon-Levitt)…
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Away We Go will outlast summer blockbusters
Sam Mendes strikes gold again with his latest film, Away We Go, starring John Krasinski (TV’s The Office) and Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live) and written by Dave Eggers (upcoming script for the movie version of Where the Wild Things Are) and Vendela Vida.
