Romance Reviews

Romance

Twilight (2008)

Twilight (2008)

Let me get a few things out of the way before delving into my review of Twilight… Yes, I read the book and enjoyed it. Yes, I read the...

Linda
Roman Holiday (1953)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Audrey Hepburn is perhaps best-known for her stylish and hip performance in Breakfast at Tiffany’s—with her timeless Hubert de Givenchy fashions and long skinny cigarette holder (not to mention...

Linda
Spider Lilies (Ci-Qing) (2007)

Spider Lilies (Ci-Qing) (2007)

Spider Lilies is the story of Takeko (Isabella Leong), a lonely tattoo artist who keeps to herself, and only seems to have social contact with her withdrawn adult brother...

Linda
Summer Palace (Yihe yuan) (2006)

Summer Palace (Yihe yuan) (2006)

Banned in China for its rampant sexuality, but probably more likely because its depiction of Tiananmen Square in 1989, “Sixth Generation” filmmaker Lou Ye has created a film that...

Linda
Sex and Breakfast (2007)

Sex and Breakfast (2005)

Why is it that former child actors always seem to make the transition to adulthood by posing nude or engaging in a porny onscreen sex scene? It’s as if...

Linda
Atonement

Atonement

On paper, this reads like a movie I’d absolutely love: Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in an epic WWII-era romance directed by Joe Wright, who brought the oft-filmed old...

Linda
Titanic (1997)

Titanic (1997)

Psst. Come on. You can admit it… after all, it was ten years ago. No matter how much you trash-talk the movie today, I’ll bet you saw it in...

Linda
Once (2006)

Once (2006)

The two main characters of Once are never named. The “guy” (played by Glen Hansard) is a street busker in Dublin. He is kind of down on his luck,...

Linda
Sylvia Scarlett

Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

Sylvia Scarlett is one of those bafflingly erratic movies that is as frustrating as it is fascinating. A good movie, it is not. It is not a good George...

Linda
Romance With a Double Bass (1974)

Romance With a Double Bass (1974)

The three featured films of the John Cleese Comedy Collection (well, two films and one television special, rather) clock in at 65 minutes, 40 minutes, and 55 minutes, respectively, with...

Linda
Catch and Release (2006)

Catch and Release (2006)

That’s what I thought as I left the screening of Jennifer Garner’s painfully tepid and somewhat incoherent dramedy that, I think, is about finding yourself through the loss of...

Vickie
Because I Said So (2007)

Because I Said So (2007)

I was never especially excited to see Because I Said So, but I didn’t think I’d actually hate it. I mean, it’s pure girly fluff—how offensive is that? Hah!...

Vickie