romantic comedy
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Fill The Void
In a glorious opening scene Rivka a middle aged Jewish mother and Shira her teenage daughter are pushing a shopping cart around a busy supermarket cruising for men. Not just any men, but a particular one that the Matchmaker has arranged to be available for a ‘viewing’. He’s standing in the cold meats section (although he…
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THE MEN NEXT DOOR
This is the latest movie from writer/director/producer Rob Williams who is a leading exponent of a genre that I call ‘Boy-Lit’. Light bubbly stories where boy meets boy, boy loses boy, then boy meets (another?) boy again, and lives happily ever after. Nothing heavy to test the brain, or challenge any assumption that love always wins…
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SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
The wonderful thing about David O. Russell’s new movie is you are never quite sure what you are being served up. It’s the story of bipolar 30 something-year-old Patrick released prematurely from Mental Hospital by his doting mother and who now spends every moment of the day and night obsessing about getting his wife Nikki…
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LOLA VERSUS
After Lola has been dumped by her fiance just weeks before the wedding in this rather lightweight rom-com it’s clear that the full title of the piece should have been ‘Lola Versus The World’. And guess what? ‘The World’ won in this somewhat annoying struggle that a very whinny Lola has when she tries to…
