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The People We Hate at the Wedding Review: Americans Abroad Crash the Party in a Romcom C

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Kristen Bell, Allison Janney and Ben Platt try hard to animate rigidly unlikable characters in Claire Scanlon's collage of assorted wedding-based farces, but it's more quippy than it is funny. The term “romantic comedy” these days covers a lot of light entertainments that only notionally meet the genre requirements: They pivot on relationships while just glancing at romance, and are packed with dialogue that’s zappily delivered but not all that funny. Read More...

15 Secrets About Just My Luck Revealed

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10. Lohan experienced her own spell of bad luck while filming, revealing during a press conference, "I twisted my ankle, when we were shooting in New York, my right foot, and it's really ironic, because the film's called Just My Luck." 11. And Lohan broke out in a rash while filming the scene with an overflowing washing machine, saying, "I started breaking out in hives all over from the soap." 12. A prank Lohan pulled on Petrie ended up inspiring him to add a similar scene into the movie. Read More...

Beattie Edmondson Interview on Patrick, Wedding and Mother Jennifer Saunders

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As we sit submerged in a plush monochrome (aptly) dogtooth printed sofa in London’s Soho Hotel, Beattie Edmondson simply feels like a normal girl, not full of the grandeur you would expect from the great comedy pedigree she hails from. As the daughter of Jennifer Saunders and Ade Edmondson, you'd expect Beattie to be more than OK around celebrities. But she is still recovering from appearing on Graham Nortonalongside Channing Tatum. Read More...