Romance

Film Review ‘Bollywood Queen’ directed by Jeremy Wooding

1/10/2012
Jackie Morrison
Modern Love Ancient Tale

Can real life love be like the movies? Are epic romances even possible for the average person? Bollywood Queen explores just what happens when your wildest dreams match up with your fantasies once you give up illusions. An Anglo-Indian love story and an early film role with Scottish actor James McAvoy is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet. An Indian girl named Geena in London is crazy about Bollywood while studying at University and dating fellow Indian Dilip. Their relationship is good but Geena feels it doesn’t live up to the romances in Bollywood films.

Film Review ‘Dear Frankie’ directed by Shona Auberbach

1/10/2012
Jackie Morrison
Where is Daddy?

A domestic violence survivor will risk her son’s trust in order to protect him from the truth about his father. While this story is unlikely to happen in the United States or Scotland, the premise of Dear Frankie is a touching tale of a mother and son trying to create a family.

Film Review 'One More Kiss' directed by Vadim Jean

1/10/2012
Jackie Morrison
What would you do if the love of your life returned?

How selfish can one woman be? Sara abandons Sam, her childhood love, in order to seek her fortune in New York. When Sara is stricken with fatal brain cancer, her selfish motives prompt her to demand Sam’s affections years later despite his life commitment to Charlotte. Sara is a very difficult character to like. She is the epitome of narcissist and emotionally abusive. Sam’s love for Sara is sincere but hers is parasitic and evil.

'Someone Like You' directed by Tony Goldwyn

11/13/2011
Jacklyn Rose Morrison
Do you think all men are bulls?

Ashley Judd plays a TV producer named Jane Goodale who is dumped just days before moving in with her boyfriend, Ray Brown. Desperate to avoid being homeless, Jane moves in with her lady-killer coworker, Eddie Alden (Hugh Jackman) whose approach to love is to be a player. Jane is reeling from her breakup with Ray and channels all her upset into a column that basically calls men's dating habits bull. By this, Jane explains that understanding human males is easy if you consider their behavior the same as bulls in mating.

'Angel' directed by Francois Ozon

11/12/2011
Jacklyn Rose Morrison
Heroine Angel Deverell Is A Devil

Dr. Drew would have probably prescribed something pharmaceutical to Angel Deverell. Dr. Phil would just tell her to get a strong dose of reality since he is not an MD and can’t write scripts. Oprah would have told her that he’s just not that into you! So goes the film Angel starring Atonement’s Romola Garai and Hunger’s Michael Fassbender as her unfaithful husband and tortured artist Esme.

Movies That Are Actually About Clothes: 'The Thomas Crown Affair' (1999)

7/4/2011
Sarah Miller

As much as I (pretend to) care about plot development, cinematography, and engaging characters, the fashion-addict in me is a sucker for a movie with an amazing palette of clothes (and shoes and jewelry).

I like it all. Granted, some movies manage to have a balance between glam and plot. I’ve compiled my top movies that feature a fantastic wardrobe, the first of which is The Thomas Crown Affair.

New on Netflix: 'Listen to Your Heart'

6/26/2011
Nicole Swanson

Listen to Your Heart, an independent film that has received countless awards at film festivals, is a movie that will surely tug at your heartstrings, despite the overused plot.

When I first started this movie, I kept thinking to myself, “This is going to be another cheesy love story,” and I was right, it was a cheesy love story, but that wasn’t all it was. It was inspirational, it was engaging and it was heartfelt. It made me laugh, it made me smile and it made me cry. It made me cry a lot, actually, but maybe that’s just me.

‘Penelope’ Movie Review

4/28/2011
Ellen Stodola

A lot of people may not have heard about Penelope when it first came out, but this certainly shouldn’t stop you from pursuing it now and having a look. Penelope is a romance that’s sort of a cross between something modern and something of the past. It features magic spells, falling in love, and the ever present family problems. But above all, this film is about a girl who’s just trying to discover herself.

Bride and Prejudice

3/24/2011
Ellen Stodola
This movie takes a classic story and puts an Indian twist on it.

Though Bride and Prejudice is by no means a new movie, many people may not have heard about it, and that would just be a shame. This is a Bollywood film that was made in 2004. It takes the basic story of Pride and Prejudice and uses a lot of humor, Indian actors (especially the incredibly talented lead, Aishwarya Rai), and its own musical numbers to make the story its own.

Post Grad

3/14/2011
Ellen Stodola
This movie helps to explore the troubles that many college graduates experience when trying to find a career after school.

Though not exactly an award-winning movie, I imagine that Post Grad hits on a topic that many people can identify with, much as I could when I watched it. This film centers around Ryden Malby, (played by Alexis Bledel), a recent college graduate who knows exactly what she wants to do with her life. But when things don’t go as planned after graduation, Ryden is forced to realize that maybe life isn’t always going to be about making plans, but it’s going to be about who you’re with and how you adapt.

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