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Love Happens

Muddled, befuddled rom-com mess

(1 star)5 Oct 2009

Jennifer Aniston adds more fuel to the fire that she’s a one hit wonder with this muddled, befuddled not very rom and not very com mess with Aaron Eckart. The nonsensical title (‘love happens?’ Is that equivocal to ‘shit happens’?) should be enough to…

Midsummer

Midsummer

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

ROMCOM WITH SONGS Ah, the romcom: an often-derided form in cinema, easily discarded as lightweight. In the decidedly heavyweight world of the theatre, it’s unmentionable. Sometimes, though, it’s necessary to make art out of the sheer joy to be found…

The Best Man

(2 stars)7 May 2007

If you’re yet to hear the name Cyrano de Bergerac and have no room in your brain for the knowledge that a film called The Graduate was ever made, then The Best Man might seem a breath of fresh air. When a struggling writer (Stuart Townsend) is asked to…

The Last Kiss

(2 stars)10 Oct 2006

This reworking of the 2001 Italian film L’Ultimo Bacio, scripted by Paul Haggis hot from his back-to-back Oscar wins for Million Dollar Baby and Crash, is a smug dram-rom-com that isn’t nearly as smart, original or true to life as its makers would…

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Dundee Rep, until Sat 16 Sep

(3 stars)7 Sep 2006

CLASSIC Reinhardt’s 1934 version of A Midsummer Night’s Dreamwas set on a hillside amidst a specially planted forest; Brook’s 1971 vision was in a white box space with trapeze artists and Michael Hoffman’s 1999 film placed the action in 19th century…

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