Ticket to Paradise
When Lily Cotton (Kaitlyn Dever) tells her divorced parents (George Clooney, Julia Roberts) that she’s getting married in Bali, they make peace (for now) in order to stop the wedding.…
That Christmas
An amiable adaptation of three children’s books by Richard Curtis, introducing us to a lovely little town called Wellington-on-Sea, where everybody’s Christmas plans are about to be interrupted by a…
Notting Hill
The most popular movie star in Hollywood (Julia Roberts) meets a London book-store owner (Hugh Grant) and they fall in love… but can a romance like that work out? Writer…
Black Adder: Hilarious History
Tony Robinson and Rowan Atkinson. Photo: BBC At a time when Rowan Atkinson chooses to make another Johnny English, one needs to be reminded of an era when he was…
Vicar of Dibley: The Gospel of Geraldine
Dawn French. Photo: BBC In 1994, there weren't many female vicars in Britain. For the Church of England, the subject was touchy. When The Vicar of Dibley premiered, featuring Dawn…
Love Actually
Writer Richard Curtis’s directing debut is one big, loveable mess, a romantic comedy with a huge cast of people who keep falling in love with each other. There are too…
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is very happy with Mark (Colin Firth), but trouble is brewing in the shape of jealousy – and the return of Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). This sequel…
Bridget Jones’s Diary
There was a lot of pressure on the filmmakers to turn Helen Fielding’s bestseller, about a 32-year-old Londoner who senses the time has come to choose between Mr. Right and…