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
Beautiful Disaster is undeniably a terrible movie… but there’s also high camp value that might… juuuust might… win you over. Watch it with some friends, boo hiss, cheer, laugh, mock, and throw popcorn and it could be a great time. … Continue reading
Love Again is a super generic rom-com which fails at just about everything the genre needs to work. The flick stars Priyanka Chopra (Jonas) and some inanimate carbon rod as a couple of people unlucky in love. His girlfriend (off-screen) … Continue reading
A Tourist’s Guide to Love is a pretty average rom-com mixed with a Netflix Watcher’s Guide to Vietnamese Tourism. Yeah, just a fairly cute rom-com randomly set and shot in Vietnam. You want to pay a monthly Netflix rate for … Continue reading