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Perfect Date Movies Vol. 2 – Love & Desire (Never Been Kissed / The Truth About Cats and Dogs / Love Potion #9 / French Kiss)

Juliet — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:01:44 +0000


Disc 1: FRENCH KISS Disc 2: LOVE POTION #9 Disc 3: NEVER BEEN KISSED Disc 4: TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS

The Holiday

Juliet — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:14:30 +0000

As a pleasant dose of holiday cheer, The Holiday is a lovable love story with all the Christmas trimmings. In the capable hands of writer-director Nancy Meyers (making her first romantic comedy since Something's Gotta Give), it all begins when two successful yet unhappy women connect through a home-swapping website, and decide to trade houses for the Christmas holiday in a mutual effort to forget their man troubles. Iris (Kate Winslet) is a London-based journalist who lives in a picture-postcard cottage in Surrey, and Amanda (Cameron Diaz) owns a movie-trailer production company (leading her to cutely imagine most of her life as a "coming attraction") and lives in a posh mansion in Beverly Hills. Iris is heartbroken from unrequited love with a cad of a colleague (Rufus Sewell), and Amanda has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend (Edward Burns), so their home-swapping offers mutual downtime to reassess their love lives. This being a Nancy Meyers movie (where everything is fabulously decorated and romantic wish-fulfillment is virtually guaranteed), Amanda hooks up with Iris's charming brother Graham (Jude Law), and Iris is unexpectedly smitten with Miles (Jack Black), a super-nice film composer on the downside of a failing relationship. --Jeff Shannon Extras from The Holiday First Look Featurettehigh bandwidth Film Clip: "Sushi for Two"high bandwidth Film Clip: "Oh Brother"high bandwidth Stills from The Holiday (click for larger image) Beyond The Holiday on Amazon.com On Blu-ray CD Soundtrack The Films of Nancy Meyers

Chick Flick Blu-ray 3-Pack (Juno / 27 Dresses / The Devil Wears Prada) [Blu-ray]

Juliet — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:46:32 +0000


CHICK FLICK 3 PACK BLU-RAY (BLU-RAY DISC)

Finding The Right Films To Enjoy At Valentine’s Day

Juliet — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:55:59 +0000

Choosing the right films to observe with the one you love for Valentine's Day can often be a little bit of a struggle. What to decide on? There are unforgettable titles like Casablanca, Brief Encounter, or any amount of romantic comedies which a lot of folk could see as being perfect viewing for Valentine's Day, but these items may not be the movies that you and your particular other half will go for.

The cheat in choosing the right movies for enjoying a romantic Valentine's Day night in with your loved one, is to select perhaps 2 movies that the 2 of you can take pleasure in as a couple. They don't need to be romantic movies, they may be comedies, horror movies, action adventure movies, just about anything as long as there's a link there for the two of you and your shared relationship.

How about something that came out when you initially got together with your partner? How about something currently out that has a corresponding theme to the circumstances in which you got together? Sometimes it can be a lovely thing to revisit the 1st film you saw together. While viewing it you can take pleasure in a bottle of wine as a couple, and reminisce about those initial days of your connection and how far you have come since that point.

If there is something acceptable on at the cinema at the moment, then by every means go along and see that instead on Valentine's Day with your beloved one, but seriously, for that special Valentine's Day feeling, it may well be a better idea to indulge in a movie at home. That way you have privacy, and you can take pleasure in Food & Drink while the movie is on, and truly indulge in one another's company.

The main issue is to recollect which both of you may savour the movie, so don't just get something which one of you can get the benefit of. Valentine's Day is a period of sharing and acknowledging your serious other, and with the appropriate romantic movies to observe on Valentine's Day, you may be certain of an evening the two of you will savour for a very long time to come. The best movies to look at on Valentine's Day, very similar to the most suitable Valentine's Day gift ideas, are those which actually take under consideration the likes and dislikes of both partners.

Chick Flicks (6-DVD Pack)

Juliet — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:35:45 +0000


7 Chick Flicks, Over 10 Hours. Featuring these great titles: My Favorite Brunette; Suddenly; Royal Wedding; Power, Passion and Murder; The Lady and the Highwayman; Jane Eyre; Mesmerized.

Crossing Delancey

Juliet — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:32:23 +0000

A sweet tempered urban love story, Crossing Delancey argues that true love may be in the first place you look. Amy Irving is a single Jewish woman working at an upscale bookstore on the Upper West Side of New York. As much as she longs to be a part of the intellectual literary scene, she is tethered to her roots on the Lower East Side, where her old-fashioned grandmother is forever trying to fix her up. Irving has her eye on a handsome brooding author, but her grandmother enlists the help of a local matchmaker to fix her up with Peter Riegert, a quiet Jewish man who runs a pickle stand in the neighborhood. Soon she must decide what it is she really wants out of life and what love really means to her. Though a very traditional love story, Crossing Delancey has its moments of soul searching drama and an unlikely romance. --Robert Lane

Girls’ Night In Collection (Just Like Heaven / Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! / How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days / What Women Want / Forces of Nature)

Juliet — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:07:40 +0000

Just Like Heaven Bad romantic comedies make you scoff at their absurdity; good ones make you wish your life was that absurd. Just Like Heaven is just smart and likable enough to trigger that wishing. David (Mark Ruffalo, Collateral, You Can Count On Me) finds an amazing apartment in San Francisco--only to discover it's haunted by the spirit of the previous tenant, an overachieving doctor named Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon, Legally Blonde, Election). There's something not quite right about Elizabeth's afterlife; against his better judgement, David agrees to help her investigate her life...but finds himself digging into his own as well. The plot takes a twist that some viewers will see coming, but Just Like Heaven doesn't rely on the surprise alone; the revelation takes the story in a new and just as entertaining direction. Witherspoon and Ruffalo are two of the best romantic leads around, but the surprise is how well their contrasting flavors (perky and moody, respectively) mesh, creating a sparky, engaging chemistry. Also featuring Dina Waters (Freaky Friday), Donal Logue (The Tao of Steve), Ben Shenkman (Angels in America), and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite). Crisply directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls), who carefully keeps the supernatural from getting silly and the romance from getting gooey. --Bret Fetzer Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! To improve their client's tarnished image, the managers of movie heartthrob Tad Hamilton (TV star Josh Duhamel) trump up a contest in which an innocent middle-American girl will win a date with the hunk. A West Virginia grocery clerk named Rosalee (Kate Bosworth, Blue Crush) wins, much to the dismay of her friend Pete (Topher Grace, Traffic), who's secretly in love with her. A summary of the romantic triangle that follows won't capture the charm of Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!. Though formulaic in structure, the movie is constantly surprising and engaging in its details. All romantic comedies should have such a smart script, understated but spot-on acting (Grace, Bosworth, and Duhamel are delightful and given excellent comic support from Nathan Lane, Sean Hayes, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Gary Cole), and clean, clear direction (from the director of Legally Blonde, another formulaic but irrepressibly fun movie). --Bret Fetzer How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Kate Hudson twinkles as the heroine of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a magazine writer assigned to date a guy, make all the mistakes girls make that drive guys away (being clingy, talking in baby-talk, etc.), and record the process like a sociological experiment. However, the guy she picks--rangy Matthew McConaughey--is an advertising executive who's just bet that he can make a woman fall in love with him in ten days; if he succeeds, he'll win a huge account that will make his career. The set-up is completely absurd, but the collision of their efforts to woo and repel creates some pretty funny scenes. McConaughey's easy charm and Hudson's lightweight impishness play well together and the plot, though strictly Hollywood formula, chugs along efficiently. At moments Hudson seems to channel her mother, Goldie Hawn, to slightly unnerving effect. --Bret Fetzer What Women Want It must've made for a great pitch meeting: Male chauvinist advertising executive gains the ability to hear the thoughts of any woman around him. Add Mel Gibson--as Nick, the divorced "man's man" who can charm almost any woman into bed--and you've got high-concept comedy made in Hollywood heaven, right? Not necessarily. The smartest thing director Nancy Meyers did with What Women Want is dispose of this ludicrous plot contrivance before it wears out its welcome. It's fun to see Mel react to a deafening chorus of female thoughts, but his dubious "gift"--courtesy of an accidental electro-shock in his bathtub--is a mixed blessing for the audience. The women in Nick's life conveniently think in complete sitcom-friendly sentences, and the novelty quickly wears thin. The movie improves by focusing on the fallout of Nick's predicament. Exploiting his unfair advantage, he sabotages the career of his new boss (Helen Hunt) even as he's falling in love with her; says all the right things to the aspiring actress (Marisa Tomei) who previously spurned his advances; and uses mind reading to curry favor with his 15-year-old daughter (Ashley Johnson). This two-faced scheming isn't malicious, however, and What Women Want is blessed by Gibson's amiably nuanced performance. His graceful riff on Fred Astaire is a dazzling surprise, and as Nick reforms, Gibson takes major credit for whatever depth this movie achieves. After a bit of nonsense, What Women Want has a lot to say about male and female behavior, be it noble or unappealing. It's both amusing and truthful, and that's almost as fun as a glimpse into someone else's brain. --Jeff Shannon Forces of Nature Plane crashes, pickpockets, hurricanes--heaven and hell is moving to prevent our able hero Ben (Ben Affleck) from marrying his sweetie (Maura Tierney) in Savannah. At every turn he runs into someone else despairing about the woes of married life. And of course, temptation proves overwhelming in the face of traveling companion Sarah (Sandra Bullock), the wild woman whom he can't seem--or doesn't want--to lose. After a wayward bird flies into the engine of his airplane, Ben is forced to find another way to his wedding. He finds himself stuck with Sarah, whom he carried from the plane after she was whacked in the noggin by his laptop. The heat between them is unmistakable, and the drama in the film comes from the "will he or won't he," both in terms of sleeping with Sarah and meeting up with his bride. Forces of Nature is a fun and sentimental road-trip film, but Ben is such a strait-laced noodge, you can't help but want him to fall flat on his face just a little. Bullock is the life of this film, although her free-spirited ways get a bit tired (responsibility is not all bad). The highlight of this movie, though, is definitely the cinematography. The beautiful rain shots and the colors of the scenes lend to the unsettling mood. While the jokes are not rip-roaring, Forces is to be reckoned with for those times when a lighthearted film is what you need. --Jenny Brown

Romantic Comedy 3-Pack (You’ve Got Mail / The Wedding Singer / Two Weeks Notice)

Juliet — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:10:41 +0000

The Big Announcement

Juliet — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:35:58 +0000

When Bill finally proposes to girlfriend Laura, she excitedly invites their friends to a mountain cabin to share the news. But Bill is immediately consumed by doubt, dread and fear. Is he really ready for marriage?Joining them for the weekend are geeky Herbie and his domineering girlfriend Gail.Self-absorbed, chauvinist Sam, a "trainer to the stars", arrives in the mountains with his girlfriend-of-the-week, Traci, an insecure aspiring model.Up in the mountain hide-away, everyone starts to question their own relationship and things begin to spin out of control. What should have been a romantic weekend in the woods, explodes into a hilarious, all-out battle of the sexes in this fresh, unforgettable comedy about modern love! 2 Disc Set: MOVIE-90 minutes & DVD EXTRAs-30 minutes (Actor Interviews, Filmmaker Featurette, Music Video, and Composing the Score).This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Serendipity

Juliet — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:12:46 +0000

The irresistible casting of John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale highlights this predictable romantic comedy, which combines the romantic yearning of An Affair to Remember and the New York charm of You've Got Mail. It all begins "a few years ago," when New Yorker Jonathan (Cusack) meets Brit beauty Sara (Beckinsale). They share a few perfect hours together before parting ways, leaving future encounters to her quirky obsession with fate. "A few years later," they're about to marry their respective fiancÃ©s (reluctantly, of course), and urgently hoping for destiny to bring them back together. Under the casual direction of Peter Chelsom (barely recovering from Town & Country), this starry-eyed romance offers no surprises, but it has a comforting familiarity, made warmer by the easy chemistry of the leads, with obligatory best-friend support by Molly Shannon and long-time Cusack pal Jeremy Piven. It's hokey, but die-hard romantics are sure to be forgiving. --Jeff Shannon