In the delightful and hilarious Wicker, Olivia Colman’s lonely fisherwoman asks a basket weaver to make her a husband… out of wood. The intelligent, sensitive, yet rather ribald film from Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson is wonderful and beautiful.
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Tag Archives: Romance
Mali Elfman: Next Exit (2022) [Female Filmmaker Friday] [Fantasia 2026]
Fantasia History: Screened in 2022
Love Letter (1995)
A heartbroken woman writes to the childhood address of her deceased boyfriend as a way to grieve. Soon she receives a reply and must decide what to do.
Coming to theaters June 5th, 2026 from Film Movement
You, Me, & Tuscany (2026)
What begins with a woman slipping into another person’s life like a borrowed dress quickly blossoms into one of the purest, most joyful romantic comedies in recent memory, sun-soaked, effortlessly charming, and long overdue.
Black Burns Fast (SiFF 2026)
Seventeen-year-old scholarship student Luthando returns to another year at her prestigious South African Boarding school only to have her entire world upended by the arrival of a cute new student, Ayanda.
The Forbidden City (2025)
A well-trained martial artist looking for her lost sister crosses paths with an Italian chef who’s searching for his missing father. Revelations bring strangers together in unexpected ways.
Romancing in Thin Air [2012] [Radiance Films LE Blu-Ray]
China’s biggest actor and a woman grieving a missing husband connect and help one another find closure in Johnnie To’s 2012 melodrama Romancing in Thin Air, now on Blu-ray via Radiance Films.