Word: romanticized
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Sure enough, quintessential bad-boy Daniel “Skirt” Cleaver (Hugh Grant) saunters on the scene. Cleaver hosts a wildly successful travel show, “The Smooth Guide” (sample travel tips: “When in Rome, do it with a Roman;?...
The movie is not just less funny than the first, but also seems to perpetuate, rather than poke fun at, the ridiculous conventions of the Hollywood romantic comedy. What connected audiences to Bridget’s stories is that she was a more lovable version of us all, bumbling her...
The ending throws out all pretense of originality or integrity. At one point when Bridget is making a romantic declaration, she apologizes, since “I know there’s no music playing and it’s not snowing.” I don’t...
If we are what welove, then Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti) is exactly like the wine he most treasures: Pinot. He loves that the grape is quirky and vulnerable--that it grows only in certain climates, that it tests the nurturing patience of its growers. And the flavor! For the...
Armageddon: The state of contemporary American cinema is morphed into an apocalyptic nightmarescape in this 1998 film from famed Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay. Some of the most horrifying images every committed to celluloid leap off the screen, including Liv Tyler bemoaning her father’s sacrificial heroics and...