Addicted (2014)
Addicted is a snooze-inducing erotic thriller made by people who must not know that cheap titillation in feature films went out of style when porn on the internet became commonplace years ago. Based on the...
Category: Romance
The One I Love (2014)
The One I Love is one of those movies that will likely hold an extra amount of enjoyment going in without any sort of knowledge, so if you haven’t seen it yet, and you like...
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Very loosely based on the story by Charles Perrault, as well as the reinterpretation by the Brothers Grimm, this now-classic Disney film would initially prove a financial disappointment that would see the studio get...
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
Joe Versus the Volcano ranks among a very select category of movies that miss the mark in terms of quality, but which has an unmistakably appealing nature that makes you like it despite it. While...
About Last Night (2014)
About Last Night is a remake of a quaint but mostly forgotten romantic comedy-drama from 1986, which itself is a loose interpretation of a David Mamet stage play from the 1970s, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago.” This...
That Awkward Moment (2014)
One can only wonder why this film, originally titled Are We Officially Dating?, didn’t go with the more appropriate title, This Awkward Movie, as this feeble rom-com by first-time writer-director Tom Gormican can never settle into anything...
Her (2013)
Set in Los Angeles in the near future, Her is Spike Jonze’s science fiction-comedy-romance-drama satire which follows a lonely, separated man named Theodore Twombly (Phoenix, The Master), who spends his days working as a writer of “heartfelt”...
The Ring (1927)
The Ring is a silent film from 1927, made by director (and screenwriter here, the only film to give him sole credit) Alfred Hitchcock (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps). It’s a familiar...
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Australian comedian and actor Paul Hogan (Almost an Angel, Lightning Jack) stars as Mick “Crocodile” Dundee, the famed adventurer of Australia’s rugged outback. Hearing the seemingly tall tales about his survival of croc attacks...
About Time (2013)
Domhnall Gleeson stars as a young London lawyer named Tim Lake, whose recent heart-to-heart birthday chat with his usually undemonstrative father (Nighy) reveals an astonishing secret. It seems that men in their family line have...