Netflix is still dominating the streaming charts as Bridgerton continues to break records for the company. The show smashed its own figures as season 2 became the streamer’s most-watched English-language show over its first 28 days. Now, in the latest figures from Nielsen, the romance series was by far the …
Read More »Netflixs Persuasion starring Dakota Johnson gets release date
Persuasion, the latest Jane Austen movie adaptation, finally has a release date – the film is arriving on Netflix on July 15. Based on the classic 19th Century novel of the same name, Persuasion follows Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson), a young woman living with her snobby family who are on …
Read More »Kristen Stewart to star in new romantic thriller for A24 from Saint Maud director
Kristen Stewart is set to star in Love Lies Bleeding, a new romantic thriller from A24, according to The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab). Stewart is set to play one of the leads in the movie, the protective lover of a female bodybuilder. The story is being described as …
Read More »The Lost City review: “A breezy adventure that sticks to charted territory”
“Is this Taken?!?” asks a kidnapped Sandra Bullock in The Lost City. It’s not, thankfully. More like Romancing the Stone Redux, as a successful-but-adrift novelist (Bullock’s Loretta Sage) gets swept up in a jungle-based quest for a precious MacGuffin. But a key branching-off from Robert Zemeckis’ 1984 breakout (look out …
Read More »The Ultimatum is Netflix’s “messiest creation yet” thanks to reality show’s twist
The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On is Netflix’s latest foray into reality television after its success with Love is Blind and Too Hot to Handle – and viewers can’t stop talking about the series that has everyone hooked to its “messiness”. The show follows six couples as they wonder whether …
Read More »Before Iron Man can propose to Hellcat, he has to fight a gorilla – seriously
Tony Stark’s MCU fans know him for his relationship with Pepper Potts, his longtime on-again-off-again romantic partner. But in the latest volume of his title, he’s been dating fellow superhero Patsy Walker/Hellcat – and in May’s Iron Man #20 from writer Christopher Cantwell and artist Angel Uzueta, he’s going to …
Read More »Jennifer Lopezs new romantic comedy confirmed for Amazon Prime Video
Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel are heading to Amazon Prime Video with their latest film Shotgun Wedding. The romantic comedy has been nabbed by the streamer for its international release. The film’s premise follows a couple, played by Lopez and Duhamel, as they prepare for their destination wedding. They gather …
Read More »Bridgerton season 2 trailer teases new romance and new scandals
Netflix has released a new trailer for Bridgerton season 2, and the next installment of the historical romp promises romance and scandal in equal measure. Season 2 will see the Sharma family, including daughters Kate (Sex Education’s Simone Ashley) and Edwina (Charithra Chandran), arrive from India and Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan …
Read More »Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist to star in new movie from Call Me By Your Name director
Zendaya, The Crown’s Josh O’Connor, and West Side Story’s Mike Faist are set to star in Challengers, a new movie from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino (H/T Matt Belloni’s Puck (opens in new tab) newsletter). The movie will follow a tennis pro-turned-coach (Zendaya) who pushes her husband …
Read More »Superhero super-couples – the best comic book romances from Marvel and DC
Superhero romances. Call them power couples, mighty matches, or whatever cute term that comes to mind, but superheroes in love have been part of comic books since the earliest days of the medium, all the way back to Hawkman and Hawkgirl in the Golden Age. And now, a new power …
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