MOVIES It's summer, which means it is off cially Holing Up Indoors Avoiding the Heat season for many of us. And that means we're in need of some mindless yet entertaining romantic comedies. OK, fine, twist my arm; here are five recently released movies available on streaming, rated from one heart to five and filled with cute outfits, enviable interior decoration and questionable life lessons.
Enjoy! 'Mother of the Bride' Netflix; 90 minutes The premise: World-renowned geneticist Lana Winslow (Brooke Shields) is distressed upon finding out a) that her rather tiresome daughter Emma (Miranda Cosgrove) is engaged and planning an immediate influencer wedding in Thailand, and b) Emma's fiance R.J. (Sean Teale) is actually the son of Lana's long-ago flame Will (Benjamin Bratt).
And ...
seriously, I'm writing this an hour after watching this movie and I can't remember what else happens, except that I kept hoping that Shields, who seems to have some sort of rider in her contract requiring that all her Netflix movies involve world travel, might just hop on back to her castle in Scotland to sulk. (See " A Castle for Christmas," which is much more fun than this movie. Or see "Ticket to Paradise," the Julia Roberts/ George Clooney comedy from a couple of years back, which is basically "Mother of the Bride" but better.
) The setting: A lavish resort in Phuket, Thailand, where the women wear flowing dresses and the men wear linen shorts and nobody ever gets sunburned. In other words, typical.