Romance Romance list

''Whatever happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I'm happy now... because I love you.''

An obnoxious weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again.

Bill Murray: Phil Connors

Andie MacDowell: Rita

One of my favourite films ever. Funny and you learn from it, Bill Murray is a comic genius as well as a phenomenal actor , amazing how he transforms and conveys his transformation, into a completely different person through the films repeated day.

His evolution and change of character is so endearing to watch. Andie MacDowell also shows good charisma and acting alongside Bill, with her role also in Four Weddings & A Funeral shows her penchant and comfort in Romantic comedies.

Ultimately love conquers all, how if one day could be perfected that true love is at the heart.
If any of us had the chance to change everything you end up with something so perfect. It's magical and at the same time an escape, escapism from the grim reality of everyday life and it shows how the simple act of being a good person can go out and touch so many lives.

Groundhog Day remains to this day a film that everyone can relate to, that if we could have another chance to make one day perfect is what life is all about. Because in life we don't get this luxury but it is one that Hog gives us a vision into.

A Masterpiece which I have watched countless times.

''Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free.''

''All I want for Christmas is you.''

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

Bill Nighy: Billy Mack

Liam Neeson: Daniel

Keira Knightley: Juliet

Hugh Grant: The Prime Minister

Classic in its own right, add to collection immediately.

One of my fave Romances...

L A has comedy, it has multiple characters and interweaving stories, it has a heart and most importantly it has Love.

The format being English, British if you will adds to my love of this all deserving film that will make you addicted to watching it in spades, it is that compulsive.

Love Actually is everything you could want and receive for in a Love Story that shows not some depressive tale but one that makes you feel good, makes you feel light and fuzzy, makes you energized and lifts your soul, L A visually and musically hits home.

Bill Nighy as Billy Mack is pant wettingly funny, while Liam Neeson, Colin Firth & Alan Rickman show how English Class always surpasses all. Hugh Grant & Martine McCutcheon also shine as a Prime Minister and the girl who does his tea. Keira Knightley also has a little twee part. It's sweet, it's simple and only cold hearted critics will dismiss this emotional feel good Romance Masterpiece.

Love Actually is in a word brilliance!

''Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspision love actually is all around.''

Watched last night and most definately makes a fine addition to my collection.

I love this film,i love it. Good chemistry between Michael and Kathleen.

Nothings going to stop us now la la la, love this film -kisses- x x x

Makes a fine addition to my collection.

Walk like a man, talk like a man..............an undeniable classic, Story is ace!. one for repeated viewing, add to your collection immediately. Heartfelt, touches your soul.

Pending Review...

love it!

Pending Review...



Romance...

A nice updated modern version of the play, different ending to the Shakespeare but a good adaptation anyway. Good chemistry. Lovely.

Above par film, worth owning.

Whenever i wake up, whenever i put on my make up!

really good cast and liked this version. keira knightley is on form and matthew macfayden is well tuned to the role of the brooding, quite mr darcey. A cliassic film for years to come. Liked donald sutherland too as the father, wonderful.

Romantic, good performances and a lovely piece of music.

Depp is exceptional as usual.

Romantic and hilarious, worth watching again and again.

Will Smith in a charming, romantic comedy. A date doctor with a heart whos own love life is harder to remedy ;).

One that deserves to be rewatched and enjoyed.

Romantic follow up to the first one. Just as good.

This was very clever where women could not be on the stage and how one mans jealousy. Slowly transitions to love and acceptance. A nice period piece with a heartful story.

Pending Review...

A very good movie, re-watch to understand it more, enjoyable.

Pending Review...

Are you game?



''Tell me that you love me first because I'm afraid that if I tell you first you'll think that i'm playing the game.''

A story of two best friends, Julien and Sophie who we see journey through life. Starts of in their childhood and their seemingly playful game in which they dare each other with a rustic tin. The game continues throughout their adult life and begins to spiral out of control, and a hidden love undeclared.

Marion Cotillard who plays Sophie, i last saw her in ''La Vie en Rose'' and this film also proves what a versatile actress she is.
Guillaume Canet who plays Julien is equally impressive and displays dazzling emotion and fiery temperance.
Thibault Verhaeghe and
Joséphine Lebas-Joly also deserve a mention who play Julien and Sophie as children.

Such vast imagination and an obssessive daring game. Wonderfully surreal and some of the scenes will shock. Watched this with Rachael and i thoroughly enjoyed it as i do with all films watched with my darling wife.

Visually it's shot excellently and some very clever effects jumbled together that tell the story well.

It's a long story and how far the two go to outdo each other is compelling. When you get to it's ultimate conclusion, ''The Dare of Dares'' the film cleverly let's your mind decide what conclusion to make.

A classic example of how dangerous a game can be and the complicated entanglement that is love.

'' Are you game? , well the answer has to be without a doubt YES!

Pending Review...

Christine: I remember... there was mist. Swirling mist upon a vast glassy lake... There were candles all around, and on the lake there was a boat...
[pause]
Christine: ... And in the boat, there was a man.
[walks over to the Phantom, at his organ]
Christine: Who was that shape in the shadows? Whose is that face in the mask?
[touches his face and rips of mask]
The Phantom: [covers face] Damn you! You little prying Pandora! You little demon! Is this what you wanted to see? Curse you! You little lying Delilah! You little *viper*! Now you cannot ever be free! Damn you! Curse you!
The Phantom: [changes mood from angry to sad] Stranger than you dreamt it, can you even bear to look, or dare to think of me?... This lonesome gargoyle who burns in hell but secretly yearns for heaven secretly, secretly but Christine... fear can turn to love you'll learn to see to find the man behind the monstor this... repulsive carcass that seems a beast but secretly dreams of beauty secretly, secretly...
[crying]
The Phantom: Oh, Christine.
The Phantom: [Christine hands him the mask]
[spoken]
The Phantom:Come. We must return. Those two fools who run my theatre will be missing you.



Her voice became his passion. Her love became his obsession. Her refusal became his rage.....


A disfigured musical genius The Phantom, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorizes the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protege,Christine whom he trains and loves. Yet a love triangle surfaces as her childhood sweetheart Raoul comes back into her life...

Gerard Butler: The Phantom. Retains soulful resonance and passion with his unique role. Quite good singing on his part that may not be tuned but has power.

Emmy Rossum: Christine. Tranquil, delicate and her voice resonating. A talented young actress who adds her character sweetness and poise.

Patrick Wilson: Raoul. The other love interest who also flexes some impressive vocals. A talented actor and singer.

Miranda Richardson: Madame Giry. Fantastic supporting actress in another fantastic role.

Minnie Driver: Carlotta. Had her own song for the film, she plays her part well as the spoiled lead at the beginning.

The movie, in my opinion, takes what is best about the play and does it even better. Though some of my favorite bits from the stage show (the rehearsal of Don Jaun where the piano plays itself, Raoul's part in "Wondering Child") are gone, they have been dropped in favor of brilliant improvements, namely having the chandelier crash at the conclusion of the film (it really brings the whole thing full circle), and allowing more glimpses of Paris 1917, finally explaining why it is Raoul returns, what happens to the Phantom, etc. Other good bits that we see now but never saw onstage: an affectionate moment between Meg and Madame Giry, some history of the Phantom, a deeper sense of what Meg may know or not know about the Phantom's presence, the stalking of Josephe Bouquet, the life of the underclass of the opera house, the Hall of Mirrors from the book, etc. Also, the music has been beautifully re-orchestrated, and never sounded better. I'll take orchestra over canned synths, any day, thank you.

The cinematography is beautiful and the "opera" moments are well done- complete with the intense, almost intrusive dancing and vibrant but totally unrealistic sets and costumes that characterized "grand opera" at the time. The sense of constant claustrophobia back stage is great, and adds to that sense of what it was like to live and work in this tiny world where everyone is a performer and half your wardrobe comes from the costume department (did anyone else catch that moment where Christine takes her dress from the wardrobe?), adding to the central question at "Phantom's" core- what (who) is real, and what (who) is an illusion- and is real preferable to illusion, or vice-vera?

The bleedingly bright colours and deep shadows of the movie help echo all of this- reminding us always, this story is not real, hero on white charger and all, but we don't want it to be: it's a legend, it's a fairy tale, it's a farce... it's a masquerade. It's, as the Auctioneer says, "a strange affair." "Phantom" told and acted realistically, totally wouldn't work, so don't ask it to, or judge it that way.

The best thing about this movie is the performances, and the director has done a wonderful thing by moving AWAY from Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, both of whom gave role defining performances, neither of which are any more "correct" than any other. The question isn't, are Butler and Rossum as good as their predecessors, but rather do their versions of the characters work, and the answer is: yes. Return to "Phantom" as a text, not as a show with a history, and you'll see that Christine is supposed to be dreamy, lost, emotionally unstable and young, just as Rossum plays and sings the role. Butler, with his harsher singing and deeper range, is much more believable as a madman who is sometimes pathetic and pitable, but still ultimately a deranged egomaniac who lives underground and makes wax statues of the woman he loves. The rest of the cast is equally good, with Minnie Driver giving a heroically hysterical performance, Jennifer Ellison combining strength and curiosity with innocence and a certain grounded quality (I've always believed the audience is ultimately supposed to identify with Meg, who is the only character who never panics and maintains a healthy sense of "reality) that contrasts nicely with Rossum's morbid dreaminess, and Patrick Wilson doing much more with Raoul than any of the actors I've seen on stage. I wish Simon Callow had had more to do, but such is life- at least he was there. Miranda Richardson continues to prove she can play anything, and conveying more with a look than most actresses can with a full script of dialogue. Her accent is totally brilliant: it sets her apart, makes her glamorous and mysterious, and at the same time, is another sly tongue in cheek reminder that what we are watching should only be believed to a point: it is, after all, just another version of beauty and the beast.

''It is no more crazy than a dog finding a rainbow. Dogs are colourblind, Gretchen. They don't see colour. Just like we don't see time. We can feel it, we can feel it passing, but we can't see it. It's just like a blur. It's like we're riding in a supersonic train and the world is just blowing by, but imagine if we could stop that train, eh, Gretchen? Imagine if we could stop that train, get out, look around, and see time for what it really is? A universe, a world, a thing as unimaginable as colour to a dog, and as real, as tangible as that chair you're sitting in. Now if we could see it like that, really look at it, then maybe we could see the flaws as well as the form. And that's it; it's that simple. That's all I discovered. I'm just a... a guy who saw a crack in a chair that no one else could see. I'm that dog who saw a rainbow, only none of the other dogs believed me. ''

Leopold is a Duke in 1876 who is mistakenly transported with a man, Stuart, from the future. Which results in meeting new friends, customs and time in a vastly different future. The greatest surprise being love.

Hugh Jackman as Leopold is so at home with his role and his studies of 19th century ways and learning his a joy to watch. He is humorous and charismatic and this role he plays reminded me of The Prestige soley on the basis of the period setting it starts with.
Meg Ryan plays Kate but her acting wasn't bad but nothing new. Reminiscent of her role in You've Got Mail.
Liev Schreiber as Stuart does a relatively good supporting role.
Breckin Meyer as Charlie was a funny, comic relief character.

Sting's song for the film won a Golden Globe and Jackman nominated for one also, his performance again is top notch.

Was a nice romantic time-travel plot with humour and a heart. Only thing in my mind it loses out on is maybe originality and a rather quick ending. It was a good outcome just needed more emphasis. More importantly it made me feel good and a love story never disappoints.