Sean Teale – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

MOTHER OF THE BRIDE – Review by Susan Granger

July 23, 2024July 27, 2024 Susan Granger Benjamin Bratt, Brooke Shields, Mark Walters, Miranda Cosgrove, Mother of the Bride, netflix, Sean Teale

Whatever happened to the light, frothy romantic comedy? Instead of wry, observational humor about falling in love ‘the second time around” and the toxic effect of Instagram/commodification of meaningful rituals like weddings, these superficially ‘pretty people’ are all bland, underdeveloped stereotypes, and each shallow, awkward scene turns out to be more predictable than the one preceding it.

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ROSALINE – Valerie Kalfrin

October 13, 2022October 16, 2022 Valerie Kalfrin hulu, kaitlyn dever, Karen Maine, Kyle Allen, Michael H. Weber, Minnie Driver, romeo and juliet, Rosaline, Scott Neustadter, Sean Teale, When You Were Mine

Welcome to Rosaline, a retelling of Shakespeare’s tragic love story from a modern comedic bent—and centered on the woman who infatuated Romeo before he gazed upon Juliet. Blending period settings and costumes with anachronistic language and humor reminiscent of 2001’s A Knight’s Tale, it’s an amusing enough adventure that gets better as it goes along.