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Goodbye First Love

Goodbye First Love

Intimate but unenlightening romance populated with unlikeable characters

(2 stars)17 Apr 2012

(15) 110mins It’s supposed to be unbearably boring hearing about other people’s dreams. But often that’s not nearly as bad as hearing about other people’s formative love affairs. Watching vain, drippy, lugubrious teenager Camille (Lola Créton) fall…

This Means War

This Means War

Unsuccessful mash-up of the rom-com and spy action genres

(2 stars)1 Mar 2012

(12A) 97min McG attempts to satisfy both sexes in This Means War – a testosterone-driven action meets girl-pleasing rom-com, that ends up not being good in either genre, despite featuring two of the hottest young actors around (Tom Hardy and Chris…

Bel Ami

Bel Ami

Pretty but shallow romantic period drama starring Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman and Christina Ricci

(3 stars)28 Feb 2012

(15) 102min A young man gains social and financial advancement via his irresistibility to women, but has trouble securing professional credibility. And then he gets cast in a film called Bel Ami! Yes, it’s hard to imagine that Robert Pattinson…

GFF 2012 - Day planner

GFF 2012 - Day planner

Our highlights for each day of the Glasgow Film Festival

6 Feb 2012

It can be difficult, when any festival rolls around, to decide which events to skip in favour of others. Searching rigorously through the programme, referring back to the calendar, trying to fit in as much as possible - it's a painstaking piece of work…

Valentine's Day - where to take your date

Valentine's Day - where to take your date

Some seductive suggestions for what to do on or around February 14th

3 Feb 2012

Experience a May-December relationship ... or at least, vicariously experience someone else’s. Among the several films the Glasgow Film Theatre are screening to get you into the Valentines spirit on 14 Feb (including Brief Encounter and French…

Valentine's Day - date our readers

Valentine's Day - date our readers

Need a date for February 14th? Ten eligible List readers are ready and waiting...

2 Feb 2012

Nicola Age: 24 Work: Arts marketing Where do you live: Stockbridge, Edinburgh Hobbies: Frequenting the cinema, gym-ing, watching live dance and opera, wandering around galleries and museums and dancing in my bedroom. Describe yourself in 5 words…

Like Crazy

Like Crazy

Sundance-wowing romance starring Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones

(3 stars)24 Jan 2012

(12A) 89mins Winner of 2011’s Sundance Grand Jury prize, Like Crazy is a long-distance love story mired in the complications of modern-day living. Anna (Felicity Jones) is a British student living in Los Angeles who spends the perfect summer with…

Interview: Felicity Jones, star of Like Crazy

Interview: Felicity Jones, star of Like Crazy

Young actress set to follow Sundance hit with films by Warren Beatty and Ralph Fiennes

17 Jan 2012

A year ago, Felicity Jones was asleep when she got a call from America. ‘I thought there’d been a terrible accident,’ she laughs. But this was no accident. On the line was the producer of her new film Like Crazy: the Sundance Film Festival had just…

Caroline Flack

Caroline Flack defends Harry romance

TV Gossip

6 Dec 2011

Caroline Flack has defended her romance with Harry Styles. The 'Xtra Factor' presenter and the One Direction heartthrob have recently started dating and she has attracted criticism because she is 15 years his senior. Caroline, 32, doesn't…

Gerard Butler

Gerard Butler is looking for lasting love

Celebrity Gossip

20 Nov 2011

Gerard Butler wants to find someone to spend the rest of his life with. The 'Machine Gun Preacher' star - who has previously been romantically linked to Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston and most recently model Sarah Carroll - is ready to settle down…

Holly Valance

Holly Valance praises 'fantastic' Artem

TV Gossip

22 Oct 2011

'Strictly Come Dancing' star Holly Valance wants to "hang out" with her partner Artem Chigvintsev after the show ends because he's such a "lovely guy". The former 'Neighbours' actress and Artem have developed a great friendship since they started…

Weekend

Weekend

Poignant and captivating story of unexpected love cut short

(4 stars)20 Oct 2011

(18) 96min A casual one night stand unexpectedly blossoms into a much more meaningful connection in Weekend, a tender heartbreaker from writer/director Andrew Haigh that is easily one of the most impressive British independent features of the…

Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo

Flat romcom vehicle for Justin Bieber's paramour Selena Gomez

(2 stars)12 Oct 2011

(PG) 108min The star of tween drama Wizards of Waverly Place, but better known as the current squeeze of Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez is being relentlessly packaged for fame. Her previous venture, last year’s Ramona and Beezus sank like a stone, and…

Brendan Coyle

Downton's John and Anna to find love

TV Gossip

18 Sep 2011

Downton Abbey's John Bates and Anna Smith will share a passionate love scene in the new series. After a slow burning attraction formed between them during season one of the ITV1 period drama, Brendan Coyle and Joanne Froggatt, who play the couple…

Alesha Dixon

Alesha Dixon hoping for Strictly romance

TV Gossip

18 Sep 2011

Alesha Dixon is hoping for a romance on this year's 'Strictly Come Dancing'. The 32-year-old singer - who is a judge on the BBC One show - thinks there will be a relationship between at least one celebrity and their professional dance partner like in…

Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense

Dark yet sentimental romance set in an apocalyptic world

(4 stars)14 Sep 2011

(15) 92min David Mackenzie’s seventh feature is, superficially, his most disturbing yet. That’s saying something given the Scottish filmmaker introduced himself and his penchant for dark psychosexual drama with his grim and gritty adaptation of…

Mademoiselle Chambon

Mademoiselle Chambon

Moving romantic drama from director Stéphane Brizé, starring Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain

(3 stars)14 Sep 2011

(12A) 101min Mademoiselle Chambon is another bitter-sweet and elegantly orchestrated chamber drama from Stéphane Brizé, the French writer-director of Not Here to be Loved, which plays like a Gallic variation of Brief Encounter. Jean (Vincent Lindon…

Amy and Lucien

Amy Childs leaves Lucien feeling like a 'muppet'

TV Gossip

7 Sep 2011

Lucien Laviscount feels like a "muppet" after Amy Childs told him she doesn't fancy him on 'Celebrity Big Brother'. The 19-year-old actor has fallen for the 'The Only Way is Essex' beauty after flirting with her on the Channel 5 reality TV show, but…

Lucien Laviscount

Lucien Laviscount's mum approves of Kerry

TV Gossip

6 Sep 2011

Lucien Laviscount's mother believes he and Kerry Katona would be "perfect together". The 19-year-old actor has been flirting with reality TV stars Kerry and Amy Childs in the 'Celebrity Big Brother' house, but his mother would prefer him to spark a…

Friends with Benefits

Friends with Benefits

Sappy rom-com fails to deflate clichés of the genre

(2 stars)19 Aug 2011

(15) 109min The rom-com has been a moribund genre for years now, excepting Marc Webb’s acerbic and adventurous (500) Days of Summer. Despite promising a similarly caustic examination of the gap between real-life relationships and romantic clichés…

Agne Motiejunait

Agne Motiejunait won't date a co-star

TV Gossip

11 Aug 2011

Made in Chelsea's Agne Motiejunait would "never" date anyone from the show because they are not manly enough. The 26-year-old star - who was previously seen having an argument with model Fredrik Ferrier and her former boss Francis Boulle on the E4…

Zookeeper

Zookeeper

Kevin James stars in woefully bad family rom-com

(1 star)13 Jul 2011

(PG) 101min Part rom-com, part Doctor Dolittle style family comedy, Zookeeper, starring lardarse comic actor Kevin James (The Dilemma, Grown Ups), is a wholly unsatisfactory experience for all but the most juvenile minds. The latest offering from…

Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu star in playful French comedy Potiche

Potiche

Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu star in playful French comedy

(4 stars)23 May 2011

(15) 103 min Catherine Deneuve has a gift of a role in this deliciously subversive farce from the prolific François Ozon. Deneuve is Suzanne, the ‘potiche’ or trophy wife, blithely content to be a domestic goddess in the shadow of insufferable…

Glasvegas

Glasvegas encourage fans to lose inhibitions

Music Gossip

6 May 2011

Glasvegas hope their songs will encourage fans to have a "romance with a stranger". James Allan - the lead singer of the Scottish indie rockers - explained for a year of the group's last performance run he was the "tour s**g" and used to indulge in…

Chloe Madeley

Chloe Madeley dating Sam Attwater

TV Gossip

3 Apr 2011

Chloe Madeley is reportedly dating Sam Attwater. The 23-year-old presenter has called time on her five-month romance with Glenn Crickmar and she and her fellow 'Dancing On Ice' finalist are now regarded as "an item" by those working on the show's…

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