Saturday, February 15, 2025

Return to Office: Movie Review



I was not expecting Hallmark to make a clear and definitive anti-AI pro-artists statement with this movie, but here we are. Return to Office with such a cheesy title and a premise that could go wrong quickly continually surprises with how many things they get right. The first thing to get right is the casting. I love and will love Scott Michael Foster in anything and joining him is Janel Parrish who plays a somewhat uptight career woman but is increasingly more interesting.   2025

Directed by: Peter Benson

Screenplay by: Steven J. Kung

Starring: Janel Parrish, Scott Michael Foster

I Love You Forever: Movie Review




A subversive romantic comedy with all of the trauma and some of the comedy.
Sometimes distributors and PR firms describe films in ways that don’t exactly fit. But that’s not the case with I Love You Forever. “A subversive romantic comedy gone wrong” about an emotionally abusive relationship - is so spot on it’s brilliant. I couldn’t write anything better so I am borrowing their phrase. This is a good movie, but in an incredibly painful way. For anybody who has been in such a relationship, heed a warning, because this is likely to be traumatic revisiting it.   2025

Directed by: Cazzie David, Elisa Kalani

Screenplay by: Cazzie David, Elisa Kalani

Starring: Sofia Black-D'Elia, Ray Nicholson

Love Forever: Movie Review




A mediocre rom-com turns into a genuine and funny screwball comedy.
A Swedish romantic comedy where families and traditions clash at a rural wedding. Hanna (Matilda Källström) and Samuel (Charlie Gustafsson) are getting married on the island of Gotland off the east coast of Sweden, where Samuel grew up and his parents and family still reside. Most of the characters, but especially the central wedding couple, are well crafted. Hanna and Samuel both have real jobs where they’re in control but have an immature streak, setting us up for the comedy to come.   2025

Directed by: Staffan Lindberg

Screenplay by: Staffan Lindberg

Starring: atilda Källström, Charlie Gustafsson