Blinded by the Light (2019)
At its best, Blinded by the Light is an encapsulation of the power of music.
Love, Simon Revitalises the Rom-Com Genre
If there’s any justice, Love, Simon will be a trailblazer. Not just for mainstream gay films, but for a rom-com revival.
The Lunchbox (2013)
The Lunchbox marketing promises a kind of Indian take on Sleepless in Seattle, where two strangers – through the vagaries of chance and India’s carefully-orchestrated, but not flawless, lunchbox distribution system – begin a correspondence and fall in love before they ever meet. You know, the kind of frothy, featherweight romantic comedy that makes the…
Manhattan (1979)
Woody Allen’s Manhattan is a dark mirror image of his Oscar-winning triumph Annie Hall. Both are romantic comedies set in New York and both feature Allen and Diane Keaton delivering hyper-literate and observational one-liners. Manhattan is filmed in black-and-white (unlike Annie Hall) and it suits the disparity between the two; Annie Hall is colourful, idiosyncratic…
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