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Oh, Hi!: Clever Comedy About Everything That Can Go Wrong on Today's Dating Scene

Oh, Hi!: Clever Comedy About Everything That Can Go Wrong on Today's Dating Scene

By Liz Braun

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 24, 2025Modern romance, Crossed sexual signals, Romantic comedies, Oh, Hi!, Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, David Cross, Geraldine Viswanathan, John Reynolds, Writer-director Sophie BrooksComment

Shotgun Wedding: J.Lo and Josh's Lame Adventure

Shotgun Wedding: J.Lo and Josh's Lame Adventure

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJanuary 25, 2023Romantic comedies, Shotgun Wedding, Die Hard at a destination wedding, Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel, Cheech Marin, Lenny Kravitz, Sonia Braga, Jennifer CoolidgeComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Queen Bees' Ann-Margret in defence of seniors homes and a shout out to The Flintstones' Ann-Margrock

Original-Cin Q&A: Queen Bees' Ann-Margret in defence of seniors homes and a shout out to The Flintstones' Ann-Margrock

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekJune 8, 2021Romantic comedies, Films about the elderly, Films set in retirement homes, Queen Bees, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret, Loretta Devine, Jane Curtin, James Caan, Christopher Lloyd, Ann-MargrockComment

I Propose That We Never See Each Other After Tonight: Rom-com tropes and over-plotting spoil the romance

I Propose That We Never See Each Other After Tonight: Rom-com tropes and over-plotting spoil the romance

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 4, 2020Mixed relationships, Romantic comedies, Sean Garrity, I Propose That We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight, Rom-com tropes, Kristian Jordan, Hera Nalam, Matthew Paris Irvine, Andrea Macasaet, FiipinosComment

Your week-endless preview: What to watch that’s NOT in the theatres

PODCAST! EP. 12: A Valentine to our fave rom-coms, Oscar incompetence redux, and an impassioned defence of cinematography

By Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Karen Gordon and Thom Ernst