How many people will go along to this new film by Céline Song (Past Lives) after seeing the winsome social media promos by stars Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans and expect a standard romcom?
Continue readingMaterialists (2025)
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My Favourite Cake (2024)
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Top End Wedding (2019)
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This is a heartwarming romcom about falling in love with Country, culture and family.
Continue readingThe Nature of Love (Simple Comme Sylvain)(2023)
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I kept thinking this romcom was ‘so French’ as it eschewed all the typical tropes in favour of a madcap, wry cynicism about love. But of course, it’s French-Canadian. Sorry!
Continue readingDay 23: My favourite romcom
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Trust (1990)
My first favourite director was Hal Hartley, born from seeing and loving his first two features; The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990). Trust might not be typically classed as a romcom – the romance doesn’t drive the narrative and the comedy is decidedly dark – but it is hands down my favourite.
Continue readingDay 21: My guilty pleasure film
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The Decoy Bride (2011)
The definition of guilty pleasure is “something that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard.” I have a trousseau of romcoms that would fit this brief and one of my favourites is this British gem starring Kelly Macdonald and David Tennant.
Continue readingDay 19: A film I’m most likely to quote
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When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron were a magic combination for witty dialogue and interesting characters. Combine that with Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby at the height of their game and you have a film that you can’t help but quote.
Continue readingDay 18: A film starring an actor whose films I will always watch
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Suddenly 30 (2004)
I don’t love everything that Jennifer Garner does but I find her films usually very watchable and there is something about the characters she chooses and the way she comes across in her socials that makes me like her. She is funny.
Continue readingDay 4: My favourite book to film adaptation
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Clueless (1995)
I didn’t know that I’d end up with two Austen adaptations from 1995 in a row. This sublime comedy by the under-rated Amy Heckerling takes Austen’s novel Emma and deposits it in 1990s Hollywood. The dialogue is sharp and funny and regularly quoted in my household – “She could be a farmer in those clothes.” It’s the only Emma version I have seen where I thoroughly like the heroine and Alicia Silverstone is at her best as spoiled but well-meaning rich girl Cher. I feel sad every time I watch it at the loss at the young age of 32 of Brittany Murphy, who plays Tai.
What’s your favourite book to film adaptation? Is it a book you loved first or one you’ve never read?
Posted as part of the 30-Day Fillums Challenge, created by me. If you want to see what’s coming up, have a look at my post here and feel free to join in by commenting each day with your own choice.
Coming Next: Day 5: The first film you saw at a cinema
Last Christmas (2019)
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I went in expecting an over-sugared gingerbread house of a romantic comedy but forgot this was British and written by Emma Thompson and partner Greg Wise. It’s fun and witty and the Christmas theme is front and centre, as is the always delightful music of George Michael that weaves a spell throughout. Continue reading
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