rom-com recap

I have a long and proud tradition of recapping romantic comedies for this website, but today I’m veering in an ever-so-slightly different direction. It had been a while since I saw The Kids Are All Right, the 2010 Lisa Cholodenko film about…

It's no secret that I live for a modern adaptation of a classic. Clueless? Yes, please. She’s The Man? I die! 10 Things I Hate About You? Wish it was eleven or twelve things! When it comes to Dakota Johnson’s new take on Jane Austen’s final…

It’s been a very bad, no-good, horrible, rotten, 24 hours, and I don’t know about you, but when I’m seething over the loss of my constitutional right to reproductive freedom, I like to watch an old rom-com. (Okay, first I like to protest…

I’m a real fan of going back through my treasure trove of aughts-era rom-coms I have known and loved, but today, I’m trying something different: a (gasp!) recently released film. When I heard the description for Cha Cha Real Smooth—a love…

It’s Recap Season once again (for clarity: Recap Season is pretty much perennial), and this fine day, we’re diving into one of the greatest cinematic contributions of our time: the 2001 rom-com Legally Blonde. No, I am not being sarcastic!…

I've recapped a lot of rom-coms for this website, but I’m going to be honest with you: I’ve yet to fully delve into my absolute favorite movie genre, which is “young women playing sports and (often, but not always) falling in love.” Is this…

There are the romantic comedies I treasure with my life—Clueless, The Holiday, and Two Weeks Notice all spring to mind—and then there are the ones that I just kind of, well...forget. I’m sure I saw the Julia Roberts/Richard Gere rom-com…

There is little in this world that I love more than a revenge movie, whether it’s Uma Thurman coming for Bill in the aptly titled Kill Bill, Carey Mulligan elaborately giving creepy guys a taste of what they’re owed in Promising Young…

It’s no secret that I’m a fan of the rom-com, but to be honest, the craft has really been dying off in the last decade. Where are the Nora Ephron movies? The Meg Ryan vehicles? The Kissing Jessica Steins of our times? (Yes, it’s a weird…