Romance Movies

Love. Happiness. Kids. Pick two. That’s the clever tagline from the movie Friends with Kids, a fun if ultimately forgettable romantic comedy that tries to be different but ultimately ends up exactly how you’d expect it to.

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If you ever wanted to see Seth Rogen in a serious movie… If you ever wanted to see Michelle Williams in yet another emotional drama… If you ever wanted to see full frontal nudity from Sarah Silverman… there’s Take This Waltz, the second full-length feature from Sarah Polley. At times cute, others moving, Take This Waltz is a mesmerizing little movie. I just wish I could remember how it ended.

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You may not be looking forward to the upcoming drama Anna Karenina, but I am. The movie is the latest movie from Joe Wright, who directed the excellent period dramas Pride & Prejudice and Atonement. And just like those movies, this one, about a high society Russian woman who begins to question her happiness and marriage when she meets a daring young man, stars Anna Karenina.

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I just watched a Channing Tatum stripper movie. By myself. In a theater. And I sort of kind of I’ve got to admit liked it. Let me rephrase. I just watched a new Steven Soderbergh drama. And it was good.

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The popular hair band musical Rock of Ages hits the big screen with an all-star cast and over 20 classic rock songs, and while short on character development and quality performances, it’s an entertaining two-hour romp that’s easy to enjoy.

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Your brother’s dead. Your brother’s girlfriend, who is also your best friend, tells you to go to her cabin for a weekend to get away from things. You sleep with her lesbian sister. You find out your best friend is in love with you. Best weekend or worst weekend ever? Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister tackles just such a scenario and offers audiences one of the most engaging movies of the year.

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Did you ever wonder what happened to the Phantom of the Opera? Me neither, but that didn’t stop Andrew Lloyd Weber, the composer responsible for the blockbuster stage musical "The Phantom of the Opera", from developing a sequel that reunites the music-loving Phantom and his muse Christine. The Blu-ray release of "Love Never Dies", filmed at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre, allows audiences who can’t afford to travel to Australia the chance to see the musical. That’s a good thing, because the play isn’t worth the trip.

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The 2012 Seattle International Film Festival kicks off this week with a great lineup of classy and edgy films that should satisfy most moviegoers’ appetites. With so many good films to choose from, I naturally selected the instantly forgettable vampire comedy My Sucky Teen Romance as my SIFF appetizer.

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Actually sort of based on a true story, The Vow stars Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams as Leo and Paige, a married couple who face a horrible reality: after getting in a car crash, she can’t remember the last several years of her life, including her husband or their marriage. Let’s just say Leo spends a lot of time sleeping on the couch. And that Paige can never get on his case if he ever forgets an anniversary.

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As movie viewers, we are most accustomed to blockbuster movie settings like the sprawling landscapes of the Midwest or the bright city lights of New York and Los Angeles. In fact, the superhero genre has even gone a step further by giving birth to faux cities like Metropolis and Gotham City. But up in the Pacific Northwest lies beautiful but less-popular Seattle, a gem that has played host to many popular flicks.

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Tim Burton. Johnny Depp. Together again. Woopty-fucking-doo.

Dark Shadows is a big screen adaptation of a television show that apparently was popular decades before I was born, and is about a rich young man named Barnabas Collins who is cursed by his evil witch mistress Angelique to forever being a vampire. She then locks him in a coffin for 200 years. He is released in the 1970′s, where he discovers that his family’s estate is in ruins, his odd family is odd and that Angelique is still alive and kicking, and also the business competition.

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Madonna’s W.E. is now available on DVD and Blu-ray, and we’re giving away three DVDs to our readers. The drama tells the story of two fragile but determined women – Wally Winthrop and Wallis Simpson – separated by more than six decades. In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward’s VIII’s abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcée Wallis Simpson. But Wally’s research, including several visits to the Sotheby’s auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple’s life together was not as perfect as she thought. Weaving back and forth in time, "W.E." intertwines Wally’s journey of discovery in New York with the story of Wallis (Andrea Riseborough) and Edward (James D’Arcy), from the glamorous early days of their romance to the slow unraveling of their lives in the decades that followed.

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