MAY07

Putting the edge in rom-coms

The Five-Year Engagement proves that romantic comedies don’t always have to be sweet, soppy confections. This is especially true when Judd Apatow is producing.

It also proves that Emily Blunt is ridiculously fabulous in everything she does and writer, star and executive producer Jason Segel is an over-achiever on the fast-track to world domination. 

Join me, Jo Cohen, Lauren Smelcher-Sams from Girlfriend Magazine and Giles Hardie from the Sydney Morning Herald as we discuss such topics and dig through the crossbows, deli-specific sex fantasies and radical facial-hair stylings that litter this couple’s slow limp to the altar.


LABELS:    Universal

NOV08

Clooney gives serious a shot in The American

Ah, gorgeous George Clooney: even when he's playing a haunted, solitary hit man holed up in a remote Italian mountain village, he still manages to hook up with the hotties.

 

But his man-magnetism aside, this chilly art house thriller, from director Anton Corbjin, is a delicious throwback to the existential suspense movies of the 1960s and '70s.

 

Join Oscar Hillerstrom, Joanna Cohen and myself as we dissect a film that's oceans away from Ocean's 11.


LABELS:    Universal