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The second part of Bridgerton Season 3 picks up immediately after Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton's (Luke Newton) steamy carriage ride, with the new couple announcing their engagement. While their passionate romance becomes more evident than ever with none other than the infamous "Mirror Scene" followed by six whole ...
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Netflix's enchanting hit series Bridgerton has returned at last! Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) has just come back to London after spending months abroad and he's more dashing than ever. At least, that's what everyone but his long-time friend Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan). When Colin discovers the reason Pen has distanced herself from...
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Featuring two of the undisputed rom-com MVPs of the early aughts, The Wedding Planner will forever be a classic. The 2001 film stars Jennifer Lopez as Mary, a wedding planner who is rescued from a traffic incident by the dreamy pediatrician Steve ... only to fall for him and realize she's unfortunately planning his nuptials to another woman. Chaos...
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Folks, I’m here to tell you that the latest Harry Styles fanfiction movie is good. Great, even. The Idea of You—which is based on the original 2017 novel by Robinne Lee, and not, in fact, fanfiction—is now streaming on Amazon, and it's completely addicting. Anne Hathaway stars as a 40-year-old single mother who takes her teen daughter to...
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Sometimes the best movie to watch is a Nancy Meyers movie — I don't make the rules! Meyers' 2009 release It's Complicated casts the always excellent Meryl Streep as a divorcée who strikes up an affair with none other than her ex-husband (Alec Baldwin) while also maintaining a romance with her architect (the ever charming Steve Martin)....
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Every once in a while, Netflix releases a genuinely solid romantic comedy with a strong cast, funny jokes, and a couple with actual chemistry. Like Set It Up and Always Be My Maybe before it, Players—the new Netflix romantic comedy that began streaming on Valentine's Day—checks all of those boxes. Gina Rodriguez and Damon Wayans Jr. star as...
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Valentine's Day may be in the (not so distant) rearview mirror, but Amy Schumer's 2015 rom-com Trainwreck is always worth the watch. Schumer and Bill Hader teamed up for the raunchy and hilarious release, which follows Schumer as a magazine journalist who falls in love with her subject (Hader). Featuring a splashy finale dance routine, plus some...
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What's Valentine's Day without watching The Notebook? Starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, this Nicholas Sparks romance follows Noah and Allie's passionate summer romance, which ultimately comes to an end when her disapproving parents interfere. Years later, the two come back together and pick up where things left off — the only problem is ...
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Back in September, I went to bat for Valentine's Day as an underrated rom-com, and there's no better day than today — actual Valentine's Day — to watch it. Valentine's Day (directed by the late, great Garry Marshall) is basically the Avengers: Endgame of rom-coms, with 19 (!!!) named main characters (played by A-listers and rom-com vets like ...
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