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With Ticket to Paradise now playing in theaters, I recently sat down with writer-director director Ol Parker to talk about making his romantic comedy. In the film, Julia Roberts and George Clooney play a divorced couple who agree to put aside their differences to stop their lovestruck daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) from marrying someone she just met (Maxime Bouttier). As you might expect, things do not go according to plan. The film also stars Billie Lourd as Dever’s best friend from college, Lucas Bravo as Robert’s love interest, alongside Rowan Chapman, Sean Lynch, Romi Paulier, and Murran Kain.

Ticket to Paradise Review — Ticket to Paradise (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Ol Parker, written by Daniel Pipski and Ol Parker and starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Sean Lynch, Arielle Carver-o’Neill, Ling Cooper Tang, Billie Lourd, Maxime Bouttier, Francis McMahon, Romy Poulier, Lucas Bravo, Dorian Djoudi and Cintya Dharmayanti. Director [...]

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What would you do if you were trying to stop your daughter from moving across the world and marrying someone she just met? Team up with your ex-spouse to ruin the wedding, of course!

Rom-com veterans Julia Roberts and George Clooney reunite in “Ticket to Paradise,” as the family of our dreams, complete with “Rosaline’s” Kaitlyn Dever. Though Clooney’s character calls their marriage “the worst 19 years of his life,” when the pair first see each other on the plane to the Bali wedding — to which Roberts retorts “we were only married for five” — the collective scheming to change their daughter’s mind might end up changing their hearts.

Here’s how to watch “Ticket to Paradise” when it comes out Friday, Oct. 21.

Is “Ticket to Paradise” in theaters or streaming?

The romantic comedy will be available to watch exclusively in theaters Oct. 21.

Although it will not be streaming immediately,...

Plot: A divorced couple attempt to stop their daughter from marrying a man she just met while on vacation in Bali. Will they break the happy twosome apart, or find their old romance rekindled?

Review: Ticket To Paradise is a return to the travelogue, romantic comedies from the past. It’s a cinematic reunion of two very charismatic stars, George Clooney and Julia Roberts. It’s complete with beautiful scenery, an attractive cast, and a script that follows a familiar path. Aside from the crowd-pleasing partnership of Roberts and Clooney, the film also features some of today’s brightest, including Kaitlyn Dever, Billie Lourd, Sean Lynch, and Lucas Bravo (who was terrific in this year’s Miss Harris Goes to Paris). It all has the makings of being a delightful experience at the movies. And yet, with all this, Paradise is predictable, dull, and just not very funny.

David (Clooney...

Sean Lynch is in limbo.

Like thousands of other independent venue owners across the country, Lynch — who owns the Pub Station, a once-thriving concert hall in Billings, Montana — is depending on the money promised by the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, a federal program passed last year to deliver crucial assistance to the live music businesses that have been struggling since the pandemic began.

The Svog passed into law at the end of December 2020, but the Small Business Administration didn’t open the application for the grant until the beginning of...

Annie Ross, the legendary Jazz singer who was part of the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross died in the early morning hours of July 22 at her home in New York City. She was 89. Ross’ former manager, Jim Coleman, confirmed the cause of death to be emphysema and heart disease.

Her nephew Domenick Allen wrote on his Facebook page, “My Aunt, Annie Ross, passed today at 2:00est in NYC. She was a Force of Nature, both in her music and in her life. I stood onstage next to her many times, and she truly was a Powerhouse. Her Jazz/standard hit was Twisted, but she was Straight Ahead all the way…I know she’ll be swinging somewhere in the Universe…”

Born Annabelle Allan Short in 1930, in Surrey, England, Ross moved to the U.S. with her Vaudeville actor parents, John and Mary Short, when she was four. She would grow...

He’s mean, he’s nasty, he carries a razor and he’s dating your sister! Cosh Boy was front & center in 1953 debates about ‘what’s wrong with the British cinema.’ It holds up well, if not as PC social comment, then as solid exploitation fare, with our verminous hero putting the moves on tough-but-vulnerable local girl Joan Collins. The entire cast will want to stand in line to get revenge against Roy Walsh, the punk who steals from his own mum and lets his criminal gang do the dirty work. Take it from me, he’s a dirty rat.

The Slasher (Cosh Boy)

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Kl Studio Classics

1953 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 75 min. / Street Date January 7, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 19.95

Starring: James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayres, Hermione Baddeley, Hermione Gingold, Nancy Roberts, Laurence Naismith, Ian Whittaker, Stanley Escane, Michael McKeag, Sean Lynch, Johnny Briggs, Nosher Powell.