Tag Archives: romantic comedy

Movie Review: Friends with Benefits

  By willok | August 9, 2011 - 9:16 am | Featured Post, The Culch
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When you think through the plots of any number of romantic comedies, they largely involve one or both parties keeping secrets or some false pretence, going to questionable lengths to maintain their lies, only for things to unfurl in the last act. Sometimes lessons are learned but there can be no denying that the leads are actually very unlikeable with both romance and comedy largely missing in action. What sets ‘Friends with Benefits’ apart from the melee is that it introduces us to two likeable, self-aware characters which immediately gets your buy-in, delivering a refreshing, enjoyable movie.

The Back-up Plan

  By jentertainment | May 6, 2010 - 9:30 am | Movies & TV
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Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) wants a baby. Her body clock is ticking, she’s seeing babies everywhere and nothing is going to stop her having one- not even the absence of a partner. The film opens with Zoe being impregnated by a doctor through artificial insemination. She walks out of the doctor’s office and into a fight over a taxi with a hunky male. In case you’re wondering, the storyline doesn’t get any less ridiculous. There’s no guesswork about what will happen next. Her squeeze Stan is played by Alex O’Loughlin and judging by this film alone, I think he’s a terrible actor. Sure, he’s got the look but I wasn’t doing any melting for him, in fact I hated him. Of course, the insemination works, Zoe is pregnant but she has just starting falling for Stan. He is dazed by the discovery of the pregnancy, torn between his feelings for her … There’s more →

The Proposal. Here comes the bribe…

  By Niamh | July 17, 2009 - 5:00 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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With lots of thanks to Movies.ie, I won tickets to the Irish premier of the new romantic comedy, The Proposal. Starring Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock, The Proposal follows the story of Margaret (Bullock), a high flying executive for a publishing house in New York city, and Andrew (Reynolds) her over-worked assistant. When it comes to light that Margaret’s visa has run out and that she is about to be deported back to Canada, she is inspired to tell her bosses and consequently the Department of Immigration that she is engaged to Andrew. The movie follows the duo as they visit his family in Alaska for a weekend to tell them about the engagement, the family’s welcoming her with open arms, the warm fuzzy feeling of being accepted into a family, etc. It’s a simple, enjoyable tale of boy meets girl, boy hates girl, girl hates boy, boy and girl … There’s more →