When Joe Banks, a hypochondriac stuck in a soul-sucking office job, is told that he has a terminal condition dubbed a “brain cloud,” he decides to quit and live out his remaining days on his own . Soon after, he receives an outrageous yet oddly liberating proposition: to sacrifice himself by leaping into a volcano to appease a Pacific island tribe, thus facilitating a wealthy tycoon’s business interests.

Although it’s a preposterous premise, writer-director John Patrick Shanley fully embraces the…

When their best friend, Darren Silverman, gets engaged to the controlling and manipulative Judith, Wayne and J.D. go to extreme lengths to pull him away from her tight grip. After most of their schemes fail, they eventually kidnap Judith and fake her death to push Darren toward his high school crush, Sandy.

Saving Silverman epitomizes the kind of comedy that was popular in the early 2000s. It leans heavily into slapstick humor, bordering on the absurd. But it’s clearly not…

After realizing that she is not cut out for marriage, writer Elizabeth Gilbert (Julia Roberts) divorces her husband and decides to go on a year-long journey of rediscovery. She will spend four months in Italy, followed by India, and then finally, Bali. What Liz is hoping for is some kind of spiritual renewal. Balance. A hot Brazilian lover would just be an added bonus, I'm sure.

I would be remiss not to say that Eat Pray Love is not really…

Let's just get the obvious out of the way first: this movie could never get made set in 2019. Not with cell phones, and social media. I understand that Annie's behavior is probably a bit stalkery, and yes, I've watched the fun fan-made trailer on YouTube that re-cuts Sleepless in Seattle as a psychological thriller. But I was twelve years old when I saw this movie, and it sparked my love for romantic movies, and frankly, Tom Hanks and Meg…