Sentences with phrase «movies in a romantic setting»

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WATCH: Some of the best romantic movies are set in London (think Notting Hill, Love Actually, and About Time), but popular feature films such as Skyfall or Sherlock Holmes offer action - packed alternatives.

I'd purposely chosen a movie which wasn't traditionally romantic, but I guess the whole nature of an outdoor film is that it's quite a romantic setting, and so everywhere I looked there were PDAs, people taking self - taken photos in couples, and bulging picnic baskets and M&S carrier bags (you wondered what I was going to say then, didn't you!)

Like most romantic comedies, the movie sets up marriage as the goalpost, but everything becomes an obstacle to the union of Tom Solomon (Jason Segel) and Violet Barnes (Emily Blunt), a thirtyish couple living in San Francisco.

Bumbling, overstuffed, and set in the middle - class fantasy world of Richard Curtis, Love Actually is an uneven ensemble romantic comedy that frequently appears on lists of the top Christmas movies.

Many of the most romantic moments in movies are the results of decidedly unromantic real - life on - set moments.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 3, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Adventureland (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Retro romantic comedy, set in Pittsburgh in 1987, revolving around the plight of a grad school - bound virgin (Jesse Eisenberg) forced by his family's financial woes to take a minimum - wage job at an amusement park the summer before he's supposed to start at Columbia.

Woody Allen recycles some familiar elements from his past movies to create «Magic in the Moonlight,» a period - set romantic comedy starring Colin Firth and Emma Stone.

For his romantic roundelay Trust the Man, a New York - set movie very much in the vein of Woody Allen, Edward Burns and early David O. Russell (see review here), writer - director Bart Freundlich did his best myna bird impression — «gathering stuff from my life that I thought was funny, about the way you relate to your wife and kids, or conversations with friends about the ways that they relate to those topics,» he explains by phone — and then shaping and pruning them down, grinding them up against the age - old pressures of temptation and fear of commitment.

And here are the five most disappointing films of the year: On the Road (Michael Winterbottom's Wolf Alice tour movie can't even find something interesting in its fictional subplot), Hampstead (a painfully strained romantic comedy set in a twee version of London), The Book of Henry (Colin Trevorrow missteps with this convoluted thriller), The Snowman (Michael Fassbender struggles to sustain this lifeless Scandinavian mystery) and Pitch Perfect 3 (it's painful to watch the Bellas try their hand at action - comedy).

An old - fashioned romantic comedy, reportedly inspired by a true story (although the real - life story had the waitress actually contribute in the picking of the Lotto numbers, which made the split winnings more believable), shows how difficult it is to make a Capra-esque movie in a modern setting.

James Marsden's new romantic drama The Best Of Me is set for a Bollywood makeover, just two days after the movie premiered in India.The actor walked...

Set in Beirut, the movie profiles five female friends in various stages of romantic and personal discovery.