White Palace (1990)
WHITE PALACE is bolstered by a novel idea for a romance, gaining much of its freshness from material that isn’t often explored in most love stories made in Hollywood, or anywhere else for that matter. ...
Category: Romance
Giving It Up (1999)
Whether you know this by the original title Casanova Falling, the international title No Sex 4 U, or the home video title Giving It Up, a stinker by any other name reeks just as bad. In the...
Maybe Baby (2000)
The concept behind Maybe Baby, a couple try everything possible to get pregnant in vain, isn’t really a novel one (unless you count that it’s based on director Ben Elton’s novel, “Inconceivable”), although this situation is mostly...
To Catch a Thief (1955)
To Catch a Thief is Alfred Hitchcock’s second of four collaborations with screenwriter John Michael Hayes (Rear Window, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much were the others), bringing light mystery elements and...
The Rachel Papers (1989)
Call it a British version of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, only less successful. Normally I would knock a film for clearly going into plagiarist mode in style, but to be honest. when it’s in Ferris-mode,...
Party Girl (1995)
Every once in a while, you come across a movie so energetic, imaginative, and fun to watch, you’ll find yourself forgiving the lack of real plot or its tendency to overindulge in asides. Party Girl...
Sol Goode (2003)
Sometimes I question the marketing decisions of the production companies that decide to make video renters think they are getting one thing and giving them another. In the case of Sol Goode, the trailer and...
A Month by the Lake (1995)
Based on the novel by H.E. Bates, A Month by the Lake derives most of its pleasures around the likability of its stars and situations. It’s not quite up to the period piece standards set by...
Just Married (2003)
Just Married is pleasant enough to sit through, alright. It’s even moderately amusing from time to time. I just can’t bring myself to recommending it because… well… there’s just not enough freshness in the material...
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
If you are someone who absolutely never gets tired of hearing the tale of Cinderella in all its various forms, perhaps Maid in Manhattan will be worthwhile for you. However, anyone looking for a moving...