Posted in Comedy, Reader's Choice, Romance on October 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s like Big! But GIRLY!
13 Going on 30 isn’t a favorite of mine, but I can easily see how it could be a guilty pleasure. It’s a fluffy morality tale about getting everything you thought you wanted and realizing it wasn’t worth it.
13 year old Jenna Rink is desperate to fit in with the cool [...]
Posted in Reader's Choice, Romance, Uncategorized, tagged Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, guilty pleasure, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Love Actually, reader, Reader's Choice, romantic comedy on October 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’ve reviewed Love Actually before (see here) but I went back and watched it again for Reader’s Choice.
Set a few weeks before Christmas and leading up to the big day itself, the movie examines the lives and loves of several groups of people, from family to friends and romantic relationships. It’s a tricky thing to [...]
Posted in Comedy, Reader's Choice, Romance, worst movies ever on March 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
God, this thing wears thin fast.
Just My Luck involves Ashley (Lindsay Lohan), a fashionable Manhattan career girl who has everything go her way and Jake, a guy who does something involving music and who seems to be perenially cursed with awful luck. When the two inadvertently cross paths at a masquerade party and kiss, they [...]
Posted in Netflix, Reader's Choice, Romance, worst movies ever on March 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Throw Pretty Woman and My Best Friend’s Wedding into a blender and what do you get?
I’ll put it as succinctly as I can. Kat is a successful woman who’s only missing one thing in her life – a relationship. After being jilted by her fiancé years earlier, she’s remained single. A phone call from her [...]
Posted in Reader's Choice, Romance, worst movies ever on February 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »
If you want a movie as dull as a box of rusty razorblades, then Glitter is definitely your ticket. Talk about a snoozefest…
A struggling singer – Mariah Carey – was abandoned by her single, lounge singer mother at a young age and since then, she’s been struggling for professional acclaim and the ability to find [...]
Posted in Reader's Choice, Romance, tagged Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jane Austen, Romance on December 10, 2008 | 17 Comments »
I don’t think I can give this one a fair review.
Let’s just get it out of the way. The plot of Clueless is Emma. They’re based on the same story. If you haven’t seen Clueless then … I’m horrified and you need to go rent it, watch it, whatever, right now. (Clueless is the better [...]
Posted in Mockery, Netflix, Review, Romance, tagged Gerard Butler, Hilary Swank, P.S. I Love You, WTF on September 21, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Family members used to say to me when I was a kid, “If you keep rolling your eyes like that, your eyes are going to roll right out of your head.” And my mother, bless her, would tell me, “Your face is gonna stick like that if you’re not careful,” when I was [...]
Posted in Comedy, Review, Romance, tagged Love Actually, romantic comedy on September 15, 2008 | 53 Comments »
How ironic that the girl who doesn’t care much for romantic comedies would actually like what is billed as “the ultimate romantic comedy”. It’s also the ultimate palate cleanser for when you’ve overdosed on a certain horror series.
Now, I know what some of you are thinking. I know you think I only like this because [...]
Posted in Drama, Netflix, Reader's Choice, Review, Romance, tagged Princess Raccoon, Zhang Ziyi on July 29, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Somewhere, J.D.’s laughing at me, I feel fairly sure.
Okay, I get the premise of this film. Princess Raccoon is actually a raccoon spirit trapped in a human body who falls in love with a human prince with typically dramatic results. It’s a fairy tale!
It’s got singing and dancing and huge musical numbers. It feels a [...]
