We Can’t Quit You, Rom-Com!
Isn’t It Romantic by George Wolf Every time someone on your social media thread pokes fun at the latest Hallmark Christmas special, you can get some pretty good odds they…read more →
romantic comedies
An Unfortunate Movie Mixtape
Juliet, Naked by Brandon Thomas Movies that mix music and quirk tend to punch me right in the feels (is a 36-year-old allowed to say “feels”?). Once, Begin Again and…read more →
Underwhelmed
Overboard by Hope Madden More than 30 years ago, Garry Marshall directed one of those Eighties films: good-heartedly hateful and contrived in that colorfully rom-com way, Overboard. It is the…read more →
Me Be Pretty One Day
I Feel Pretty by Hope Madden Trainwreck, the 2015 big-screen break out for comic Amy Schumer (and LeBron James and John Cena) offered a wise about-face for the rom-com. Written…read more →
Jiggidy Jog
Home Again by Hope Madden Let’s say you love Nancy Meyers’s movies – you know, those fantasies like It’s Complicated or Something’s Gotta Give where late-middle-aged women land all the…read more →
Table of Misfit Toys
Table 19 by Matt Weiner If you sit a group of strangers together at a wedding reception, you’ll find out that each one of them is a brain… a basket…read more →
Bridget Jones, Back in Medium-Rare Form
Bridget Jones’s Baby by Matt Weiner It’s been over a decade since Bridget Jones last went through an embarrassing series of personal and professional mishaps on the way to learning…read more →
How to Borrow Liberally
How to be Single by Hope Madden Upending rom-com clichés has become its own cliché, and yet, with the right minds and talent, it can still be a fresh and…read more →
Does the Sex Part Always Get in the Way?
Sleeping with Other People By Christie Robb The latest rom-com to follow in the footsteps of 1989’s classic When Harry Met Sally is Leslye Headland’s Sleeping with Other People (which…read more →
What Are Nouns?
People Places Things by Hope Madden I dare you to dislike Jemaine Clement. Just try to – it’s not even possible. Whether he’s the aspiring pop star of Flight of…read more →