romance

BETTER DAYS: Melodrama Meets Anti-Bullying PSA
BETTER DAYS: Melodrama Meets Anti-Bullying PSA

Better Days often feels like an extremely bleak after-school special. But thanks to remarkable performances, it’s worth sticking with to the bitter end.

Queerly Ever After #50 LOVE SONGS (2007)
Queerly Ever After #50: LOVE SONGS (2007)

The Queerly Ever After column celebrates its 50th entry with Christophe Honoré’s 2007 film Love Songs (Les Chansons D’Amour).

MONDAY: It’s Got That Monday Feeling
MONDAY: It’s Got That Monday Feeling

As captivating of an examination it is, Monday constantly threatens to lose its audience, its pace and lack of empathy disconnecting.

All the World's a Stage: The Limitations of Artifice in DISHONORED
All the World’s a Stage: The Limitations of Artifice in DISHONORED

Dishonored may not be the most entertaining film in the von Sternberg-Dietrich cycle, but it is the most thoughtful and stealthily affecting.

Queerly Ever After #49: BIG EDEN (2000)
Queerly Ever After #49: BIG EDEN (2000)

Big Eden could have been a really cute romantic movie, but it gets hampered down and suffers from its own clunkiness.

SXSW Dispatch #1: I'M FINE (THANKS FOR ASKING), LANGUAGE LESSONS, & ISLANDS
SXSW Dispatch #1: I’M FINE (THANKS FOR ASKING), LANGUAGE LESSONS, & ISLANDS

In his first report from SXSW Film Festival, Soham reviews I’m Fine (Thanks For Asking), Language Lessons and Islands!

Queerly Ever After #48: JUST FRIENDS (2018)
Queerly Ever After #48: JUST FRIENDS (2018)

A fun, sexy, romantic comedy, Just Friends is a Dutch TV movie about two young men falling in love.

HAPPILY: Unique Take on a Familiar Story
HAPPILY: Unique Take on a Familiar Story

Happily breathes new life into a story we have seen too many times through its unique twists to the classic structure and charming performances.

CENTER STAGE: A Legend Lives On
CENTER STAGE: A Legend Lives On

One hopes that this new restoration reignites interest not just in the film, which is an absolute masterpiece, but in the career of Ruan Lingyu.

Queerly Ever After #47 THE CURIOSITY OF CHANCE (2006)
Queerly Ever After #47: THE CURIOSITY OF CHANCE (2006)

Queerly Ever After looks into the 2006 teen romantic-comedy The Curiosity of Chance, where a new guy tries to find his place in a new school.

Queerly Ever After #46: AKRON (2015)
Queerly Ever After #46: AKRON (2015)

Queerly Ever After #46 analyzes 2015’s Akron, where two young men find love despite a tragedy that links their families together.

PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME: A Game of ‘He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not’
PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME: A Game of ‘He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not’

Like its title suggests, it is a peculiar tale that lives on its frustrating evocation of the ambiguity of love.

BLINDSPOTS PODCAST EPISODE #22: WILD AT HEART & KALIFORNIA
BLINDSPOTS Podcast Episode 10: JANE EYRE, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, LIKE CRAZY & ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE

On an all-new Blindspots, Jake and Kristy celebrate their tenth episode milestone with another special double episode coinciding with Valentines Day.

ANOTHER EARTH: A Multidimensional Success
ANOTHER EARTH: A Multidimensional Success

Another Earth, Mike Cahill’s sci-fi romance celebrating its tenth anniversary, is multifaceted and deeply layered.

A GHOST WAITS: A Horror Rom-Com With Heart & Allure
A GHOST WAITS: A Horror Rom-Com With Heart & Allure

A Ghost Waits won’t provide too many chills and scares, but it will provide a well-crafted, tonally ambitious narrative of love and loneliness.