Romance Reviews

Romance

North to Alaska (1960)

North to Alaska (1960)

It is 1900, Nome, Alaska, where a gold rush is in full swing. Sam McCord (John Wayne) and his buddy George Pratt (Stewart Granger) have done just fine (which...

Linda
Evening

Evening

For all the hype it got, I expected Evening to be an emotional tour de force, an Oscar shoo-in, a powerhouse of talent. I expected something to substantiate the...

Jennifer
Starting Out in the Evening

Starting Out in the Evening

Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose) is a young graduate student writing her thesis on Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella), an acclaimed novelist in his twilight years. When she visits him in...

Jennifer
Charlie Countryman

Charlie Countryman

When a lovely young Romanian cello player chastises a shaggy-puppy American that he is only involving himself in her world because he “has a fantasy about helping a woman...

Linda
About Time (2013)

About Time (2013)

The challenge of balancing the past, present and future underscores this story about love – love between family members, between friends, and between the film’s amiable hero, Tim (Domnhall...

Vickie
The Trapp Family (Die Trapp-Familie) (1956)

The Trapp Family (Die Trapp-Familie) (1956)

Wow, who knew The Sound of Music was preceded by a weirder, crappier movie about the Von Trapps, called The Trapp Family? I’m still not entirely sure how this movie...

Jennifer
Haunted Summer

Haunted Summer

Back in the day, as Hollywood is wont to do (over and over), there were two movies about the exact same thing that came out almost at the same...

Linda
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2005)

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2005)

The Mostly Unfabulous Life of Ethan Green is based on a comic strip that is so widely read that I’ve never even heard of it. Judging from the sample...

Linda
Yossi & Jagger (2002)

Yossi & Jagger (2002)

A refreshingly sweet yet no-nonsense love story, the Israeli gay-soldier romance Yossi & Jagger manages to do in a brisk 65 minutes what so many American films of the...

Linda
Crazy Heart

Crazy Heart

Greasy, sweaty, drunk and seeming like he’d probably reek of whiskey, cigarettes and B.O., Bad Blake (Bridges) is a once-lauded country-music star who’s so far down on his luck...

Vickie
The Big Parade (1925)

The Big Parade (1925)

If it weren’t for the fact that The Big Parade came out in 1925, four years before the first Oscar was awarded, it would probably now be included as...

Linda
Ice Castles (2010)

Ice Castles (2010)

I can just about guarantee that any girl born in the early 70s has gone through the slumber-party right of passage called Ice Castles. The original 1978 movie starred...

Linda