The best romantic movies on Netflix UK

February 12, 2022 | David Farnor

Boy meets girl. Boy gets with girl. Boy and girl move in together and get a shared Netflix account.

It sounds like a happy ending, but much like true love, a good rom-com is hard to find. A good drama … Read More

Streaming Shakespeare: 11 best modern movie adaptations

April 23, 2021 | David Farnor

When it comes to the Bard, a little bit of iambic pentameter can go a long way for modern audiences. Over the decades, though, there has been no end of versions that have brought Shakespeare’s work into contemporary settings to … Read More

The best modern romantic comedies

May 25, 2020 | David Farnor

The romantic comedy is one of cinema’s most under-appreciated genres, with films dismissed as guilty pleasures or, worse, “chick flicks”. But the genre has continued to widen its perspectives and subvert tropes since its 1990s heyday, introducing homosexual stories, playful … Read More

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

May 23, 2020 | Katherine McLaughlin

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