Love Actually (DVD)

Love Actually has now become one of my favourite British Movies of all time and in my opinion can be classed as a British Classic alongside such favourites as Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral. It was released in 2003 and directed by Richard Curtis. The great part about the film in my opinion is the way in which the stories and the characters all weave and are linked in very creative ways to show how the personal lives of others can affect your own life. The film also incorporates my favourite time of year, Christmas! It follows the great British Christmas traditions of deciding who is going to have the Christmas number one, the school ...  Read the complete review

I love 'Love Actually' and that's not just because I'm in a slushy mood because it's Valentine's Day! If you are not aware of the film, it is British made and was directed by Richard Curtis in 2003. It has a fantastic British cast combining the talents of Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Kiera Knightley, Rowan Atkinson and Martine McCutcheon to name but a few! It is a film about love, but not just one love story but many that are at times linked and seem to overlap at the edges! Hugh Grant plays the prime minister who falls for his new assistant, played by Martine McCutcheon. An unlikely pairing you might think but it seems to work! Emma Thompson plays ...  Read the complete review

There are films that you go to see knowing that they are going to be disappointing, but with a stellar cast, such as those starring in 'Love Actually', you vainly hope that you will be proved wrong. The plot, or should I say plots, revolve around nine different stories in the run up to Christmas which concern love of some description - whether it is unrequited, romantic, rejected etc. As would be expected with a respected screenwriter such as Richard Curtis, the story is given some sort of coherency by each of the characters being connected to another in a parallel story. For instance Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofer) is getting married to Juliet (Keira ...  Read the complete review

Director Richard Curtis (screenwriter for Four Weddings & a Funeral, Bridget Jones Diary and Notting Hill) makes his directorial debut in the latest offering from the British Romantic Comedy camp, "Love Actually". The cast-list is a veritable feast of the “great and the good” and promotional material for the movie played on this with advertising in the form of a simple list of names: Atkinson, McCutcheon, Firth, Grant, Thompson and Rickman to name a few. This movie was billed as being the big Christmas hit of 2003, using big names to ride on the wave created by the likes of Four Weddings and Bridget Jones, to take it to the top. It ...  Read the complete review

I was away from home all this week, with a few colleagues in that delightful town which is Slough, and we decided that a chick flick had to be the order of one evening, especially a chick flick with the delightful Hugh Grant in it, so Love Actually it was. Four girls, one guy, and a great big box of tissues?! Now much as I think Hugh Grant is getting even better looking with age, I think he has made some pretty ordinary movies. I liked Four Weddings when that came out, and Notting Hill too, but he has made some shockers too, and has had some real stereotypical middle class English Guy roles, so I wasn?t in a mad rush to go and see this film. That is until I saw ...  Read the complete review