‘Isn’t It Romantic?’ is only pretending to be a different kind of rom-com

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Isn’t It Romantic? will have you know that it is not like other rom-coms.

Its heroine, Natalie (Rebel Wilson) doesn’t look like most other rom-com heroines. She does not have a lavish apartment, or an adorable wardrobe, or even an Instagram-ready pet. She isn’t especially interested in finding love. And she definitely doesn’t like rom-coms themselves. “All these movies are lies,” she huffs. “So unrealistic!”

In truth, though, Isn’t It Romantic? is, in almost all respects, exactly like other rom-coms, down to the sugar-coated morals it wants to feed you. It’s just one that loudly calls attention to the tropes it’s using before using them, and then pats itself on the back for turning them on their heads – never mind that most of those “subversions” have themselves been rom-com staples for years. Read more…

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Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson form the crime team of our dreams in ‘The Hustle’ trailer

Why do women make better con artists than men? In the trailer for Chris Addison’s The Hustle, it’s because Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson make one hell of a team, taking down mark after mark because the world underestimates them.
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Rebel Wilson is blocking critics on Twitter after her ‘first plus size rom-com lead’ gaffe

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Rebel Wilson caught some heat on Thursday for declaring herself the first plus-sized woman to be the lead in a romantic comedy. (Her new film Isn’t It Romantic comes out next Valentine’s Day.) 

She was wrong: Queen Latifah and Mo’Nique, for example, have taken on such roles in the past.

I still can’t believe that Rebel Wilson doubled down on the lie that she’s the first fat actress to star in a rom-com. Like Mo’Nique didn’t snag a handsome doctor in Phat Girlz! Like Queen Latifah didn’t get Common AND LL Cool J!

— Evette Dionne 🤷🏾‍♀️ (@freeblackgirl) November 3, 2018

Instead of admitting her gaffe and moving on, though, it appears that Wilson is blocking people who’ve pointed out her mistake on Twitter. In particular, numerous critics of color — many of whom brought up Queen Latifah and Mo’Nique in their comments — reported being blocked by Wilson over the weekend. (Mo’Nique herself encouraged Wilson to “take a moment and know the history,” but as far as we know, she was not blocked.) Read more…

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Get ready to be completely charmed by Rebel Wilson in rom-com send up ‘Isn’t It Romantic’

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‘Pitch Perfect 3’ is…fine, and you can’t have expected more than that

Why make a successful movie if you can’t eventually exhaust its resources? The third Pitch Perfect film releases on Friday, and the final song for the Barden Bellas is hardly as revolutionary as the 2012 original, but it’s fine and fun if you low…

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Rebel Wilson details own experience with sexual misconduct in Twitter thread

In a lengthy Twitter thread on Saturday, Rebel Wilson detailed her own experiences with sexual misconduct in Hollywood.
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