If You Were the Last is a sci-fi rom-com that people seem to like… as someone who doesn’t understand hu-mans, I’m at a bit of a loss. I didn’t think much of this film or its two leads… I didn’t … Continue reading
What Happens Later is a Meg Ryan film… she directed it and co-wrote the screenplay so good on her. Too bad she wasn’t able to wrangle one of her old co-stars to be in it with her… such a person … Continue reading
In analyzing this latest Netflix rom-com, I asked myself “Good cliché or bad cliché” and then “Good generic or bad generic”. And then I got introspective… “was I feeling like a chump or a cynic?” But I think the most … Continue reading
Love at First Sight is a Netflix rom-com with a trite title for such a lovely and charming film. As a rom-com skeptic, I was instantly suspicious. Two abnormally attractive people in a seemingly standard-issue rom-com that would surely lead … Continue reading
Shortcomings is an indie Asian American rom-com that exists in a world where a glossy big budget Asian American rom-com makes it easier for indie Asian American rom-coms to get made. It’s a cute bit of meta commentary about Crazy … Continue reading
Puppy Love is a sweet and decent rom-com / dog movie. It stars Grant Gustin as a neurotic mess (with a female emotional support dog) and Lucy Hale as a more down-to-earth woman (with an adopted male dog). They go … Continue reading
Aliens Abducted My Parents (and Now I feel Kinda Left Out) sure feels like the clickbait version of a movie title. Makes you think you’ll be watching a wackier, more satirical movie than what you actually get. And I’d be … Continue reading
Love in Taipei is a Paramount+ rom-com that is so harmless that it may as well not exist. It does nothing interesting, it’s not funny, it has characters that are uninteresting, and I might as well not have watched it. … Continue reading
Pretty confident the producers of Maybe I Do have an I Know What You Did Last Summer level of blackmail on Richard Gere, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, and William H. Macy. How else to explain how such Hollywood elder statesmen … Continue reading
The premise of Robots showed promise. In the near future, humanoid robots have taken most of the jobs but its illegal to own a realistic robot. Jack Whitehall plays a guy who owns one that he sends out on dates … Continue reading