They also make monster movies, rom-coms, military shoot-em-ups, cine noir, even satires on married life".
3. Kaling made talking about rom-coms cool again.
If you cast the woman first — unless she is Angelina Jolie — you are probably making a rom com, and rom coms are man-poison to established actors.
Because that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you make a rom-com. .
But there's an element of predictability that makes the rom-com almost automatically tired.
Also, Jason Solomons files his last report from the Lido, and Mariella Frostrup writes about what makes a great rom-com, as Crazy, Stupid, Love heaves into view.
And Ephron made rom-com an artform, exploring deep issues of female friendship, death, divorce, single motherhood and unconventional love in all its forms.
Basically, it's a group of humans that collaborates with various bots to make stuff that probably wouldn't get made otherwise, like computer-generated Netflix rom-coms, Oscar ballots and new Harry Potter books.
As you've probably gathered, I don't have much time for rom-coms, but there's one currently showing that continues to get better and better.
For starters, do critics hate rom-coms as a genre?
