The best classic romantic comedies

The romantic comedy is one of cinema’s most under-appreciated genres, with films dismissed as guilty pleasures or, worse, “chick flicks”. It doesn’t help that the genre can also be highly inconsistent, with movies of all quality levels released over the … Read More

Don’t go breaking my heart: The lessons we learnt from rom-coms

Romantic comedies have transcended throughout cinema as one of the most successful and crowd-pleasing of all movie genres. Boy meets girl; boy breaks girl’s heart; boy wins girl back. And while this is a narrative that’s grown completely tiresome and … Read More

While you were streaming: How Netflix embraced the rom-com

In 2017, Netflix released its first romantic comedy under its “Original” banner: A Christmas Prince followed a comforting Hallmark movie formula, with subsequent sequels, The Royal Baby and The Royal Wedding released yearly to make up an Aldovia-based trilogy. Since … Read More

MUBI Weekly Digest | 23rd May 2020

It’s been a big week for MUBI, which has just launched MUBI Library, a new collection of archive titles that opens up the streamer’s catalogue, with more than 400 former releases now available to stream at any time. You can … Read More

MUBI Library: Your questions answered

This week, MUBI announced what kids today would call “a game-changer”. The subscription streaming service, which has long emphasised its curation of films from around the world, has long operated on a 30-day carousel model, with one new film arriving … Read More

Adult Swim brings back Tuca & Bertie for Season 2

Adut Swim is bringing back Tuca & Bertie for a second season.

The comedy, which was commissioned in 2018 by Netflix, stars Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong and follows two 30-year-old friends who live in the same apartment building: Tuca, … Read More

Curzon Home Cinema presents Human Rights Watch Film Festival

This weekend, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival is going online, with a 13-day event streaming on Curzon Home Cinema.

Co-presented by the Barbican, Curzon Soho and Regent Street Cinema, the festival presents nine essential films about urgent human rights … Read More

Trailer: Queer Eye Season 5 arrives this June

Netflix is bringing audiences just what they need this June, with the return of Queer Eye for its fifth season.

The Emmy Award-winning series was revived by Netflix in 2018, introducing audiences around the world to a modern aesthetic, diverse … Read More

Bad Boys for Life tops UK Film Chart

It’s Bad Boys For Life for film fans, as Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s sequel has stormed their way to the top of the UK’s Official Film Chart.

The action flick debuted at Number 1 in the chart, seeing … Read More

Staged: David Tennant and Michael Sheen star in lockdown comedy for BBC One

David Tennant and Michael will star in Staged, a new lockdown comedy for BBC One.

From Infinity Hill and GCB Films, the six-part short-form series follows the cast of a play – the cream of the crop of British acting … Read More