romance

Glasgow Film Festival 2024: THE BURNING SEASON
Glasgow Film Festival 2024: THE BURNING SEASON

The Burning Season is an intricately told story of secrets, guilt, and lust, anchored by great chemistry between its co-stars, and a satisfying script.

SKIN DEEP: A Body Swap Romance Exploring The Modern "Self"
SKIN DEEP: A Body Swap Romance Exploring The Modern “Self”

Skin Deep remains a thought-provoking exploration and an impressive first feature using all the resources at its disposal.

Horrific Inquiry: LET ME IN (2010)

For this Horrific Inquiry we take a look at 2010’s vampiric Let Me In.

THE BREAKING ICE: Gliding Along With Directionless Youth
THE BREAKING ICE: Gliding Along With Directionless Youth

Every time The Breaking Ice seems to be on the brink of shattering, it glides.

FLOAT: Grab A Life Preserver
FLOAT: Grab A Life Preserver

Float loses much of its authenticity and charm in the lackluster filler and predictability, drowning with no chance of rescue.

GOOD GRIEF: A Cathartic Examination Of The Human Experience
GOOD GRIEF: A Cathartic Examination Of The Human Experience

A multilayered depiction, Good Grief delivers on what its title promises and audiences will find they are richer in experience for it.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO YOU: Easy Breezy Romance With Heart
WHICH BRINGS ME TO YOU: Easy Breezy Romance With Heart

Which Brings Me To You is a heartwarming romantic comedy that strives to reach beyond the simplicity of love matches and mishaps.

ANYONE BUT YOU: Good-Old-Fashioned Junk Food

Anyone But You is a light, self-aware piece of entertainment that isn’t afraid of being silly.

LOVE ACTUALLY: 20 Years Later, Love Is Still All Around
LOVE ACTUALLY: 20 Years Later, Love Is Still All Around

Love Actually is as heartwarming as it is quotable – the experience of love and joy a permanent staple each and every year.

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH Season 2: Ship Just Got Real
OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH Season 2: Ship Just Got Real

The artfulness, creativity, and uniqueness of Our Flag Means Death Season 2, combined with the darling charm and wit, will win audiences over immedately.

BRIDGET JONE'S DIARY: A Love Letter to Romance in Adulthood
BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY: A Love Letter to Romance in Adulthood

Bridget Jones’s Diary is a classic, yet refreshing, take on the rom-com, showing the imperfectly wonderful side of romance in your thirties.

A Century in Cinema: The Grub-Stake (1923)
A Century in Cinema: THE GRUB STAKE (1923)

Welcome to A Century in Cinema, the monthly column where I’ll be discussing films from…

POOR THINGS: A Frisky, Freaky, and Funny Odyssey
POOR THINGS: A Frisky, Freaky, and Funny Odyssey

Poor Things is a brilliantly weird odyssey of beauty and bile that goes down like a wonderfully bitter-and-sweet cocktail.

New York Film Festival 2023: ALL OF US STRANGERS
New York Film Festival 2023: ALL OF US STRANGERS

Is Andrew Haigh okay? Silly question: Of course he isn’t, he’s a filmmaker. An auteur,…

A Century In Cinema: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923)
A Century In Cinema: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923)

Known as Universal’s “Super Jewel” of 1923, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” was a smash hit, catapulting Lon Chaney to full-star status.