Finding Emily: Sometimes I Just Need a Rom-Com

People getting unalived. Dinosaurs. Jason Statham kicking everyone's ass.

Apparently, I needed a break.

So I watched Finding Emily, a British rom-com involving a musician who loves love, a mysterious woman dressed as a fairy, a phone number missing ONE FREAKING DIGIT, and a psychology student who thinks our entire notion of romantic love may be archaic.

What could possibly go wrong?

It reminded me a little of a John Hughes movie with its use of music, while the British humor brought back some of what I love about Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Love Actually.

There's even Minnie Driver—and an Emily who kept making me think of a young Amy Adams in Enchanted.

Is it predictable? It's a rom-com. Of course it is.

But sometimes I need some music, British cheekiness, romance, and maybe even an inner—or OUTSIDE—cry.

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One Night Only: The Purge Meets Valentine's Day

Imagine a future where the government gives unmarried people 12 hours to hook up—and when the clock runs out, it's back to being illegal.

That's the wonderfully strange setup for One Night Only, a dystopian romantic comedy I knew absolutely nothing about before walking into the theater. And I'm glad I didn't.

It's part The Purge, part Valentine's Day, with chance encounters, government tracking, romance, some familiar faces, and a good guy trying to get the girl.

Does he?

I'm not telling.

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