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Image via Peacock Romantic comedies look to be coming back in a big way, with storied genre veteran Julia Roberts joining forces with George Clooney for the cinema-bound Ticket to Paradise; if Roberts is coming back to it, that’s when you know it’s high time to cash in. And cash in Alex Lehmann has, with the brand new Meet Cute, a film that adds to the surprisingly long list of romantic comedies involving time travel, joining the likes of 13 Going On 30, Midnight in Paris, and About Time. Starring Kaley Cuoco…

Lindsay Lohan’s forthcoming Netflix film, Irish Wish, has added more stars to its cast. The rom-com, set for release in 2023, features Lohan in the lead role as a bridesmaid named Maddy who is in love with her best friend’s husband-to-be. Though she decides to put her feelings aside to support the couple, days before the wedding in Ireland, she makes a wish for true love and magically wakes up as the bride. However, she soon realises that her true soulmate is someone that she never expected it to be.As well as the Mean…

Billy Eichner is no longer “on the street,” and is the star of the new studio comedy from Nicholas Stoller titled Bros. The film is garnering a lot of attention for bringing back the studio comedy, as well for the incredible queer talent involved. Bros is a major milestone, with the cast being primarily made up of LGBTQ+ actors, including SNL's Bowen Yang and Glee's Dot Marie Jones. Bros officially moved forward in March 2021, and with the historic production finally ready to be shared with the world, the early reviews…

Dir: Ol Parker. Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Maxime Bouttier, Billie Lourd, Lucas Bravo. 12A, 104 minutes.It’s a joy to watch Julia Roberts and George Clooney fall in love. It’s an even greater joy to watch them bicker. As embittered exes in Ticket to Paradise, flying to Bali in order to stop the whirlwind nuptials of their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) to a local seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier), the duo have been provided a full buffet of snappish asides. They’re heirs to that great screwball…

Plan A Plan B trailer is out. Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for its upcoming Indian rom-com, starring Riteish Deshmukh and Tamannaah Bhatia in the lead. The film centres around an unlikely match between a divorce lawyer and an earnest matchmaker, who battle it out to determine whose ideals are in the right. Shashanka Ghosh — best known for House Arrest — directs the film from a script penned by newcomer Rajat Arora. Plan A Plan B releases on September 30, exclusively on Netflix.The quirky trailer for Plan A Plan…

x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADrWgBntlEE Pete Davidson, Kaley Cuoco, romance, comedy, and time travel are all the things you can expect in the new Peacock original film Meet Cute, releasing on the streaming service later this month. Not since the trailer for Inception have we been more baffled about what the finer details of the plot for Meet Cute actually entail, based on the initial preview, which frankly stokes our curiosity even more about the film. From what we can gather, it seems to involve a device…

Image via Netflix The weekend has seen a new contender emerge on the Netflix charts rising to the top of the rankings above Kevin Hart’s borefest Me Time and this surprisingly addition is called Love in the Villa. According to FlixPatrol’s daily rankings, on Sept. 4 Love in the Villa was the most viewed movie on the platform, making the fourth Netflix original production in the top 5 and finally dethroning Me Time from its number one spot. Love in the Villa is a new rom-com from the streamer which features The…

Netflix has announced Lindsay Lohan will star in its forthcoming romcom Irish Wish, fulfilling its two-picture deal with the actor. In March of this year, it was revealed that the 36-year-old actor had signed on with the streamer to star in two movies.In the first movie in her deal, Falling for Christmas, debuting on 10 November, Lohan stars as an engaged hotel heiress who falls in love with a blue-collar boy (Glee’s Chord Overstreet). Now, in the second step of her career comeback, the Mean Girls star has been cast in…

The Netflix confection Love in the Villa invokes two well-established traditions. There’s the general rom-com formula – two characters at odds, a meet-cute, a deception/reveal, an epiphany, a repeated inside joke, someone running somewhere in a time crunch. And then there’s the manufactured flavors of Netflix comfort food: recognizable B-to-C-list talent, cheesy locale, banal Twitter-inflected jokes, distinctively cheap-looking production, passable but not particularly invigorating chemistry. Written and directed by Mark…

Image: Netflix One of Netflix‘s most prized sections of its extensive catalog is a sheer mountain of romantic comedies, with seem to be multiplying every other minute. Thanks to the safe bet of romantic comedies on the service, new flick That’s Amor has shot itself straight into the top 10 within its first week on the streaming service. Titled ever-so-familiarly to a famous Dean Martin song, it’s proving the kitchen to be one of the hottest places for romance to begin. Sitting at number nine, just ahead of the…