It needs to be said right from the start that I have fallen hopelessly and irrevocably in love with Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) over the course of reading their delightfully-candid and hilariously funny book The Greatest Love Story Ever Told. So you can Continue Reading
Valentine’s Day
The short and the short of it: An Ode to Love – one man, an island and some sticks
An Ode To Love, written and directed by Matthew Darragh and produced by Suzie Belton & Danielle Considine with music by Stefan French, and made with the generous support of Filmbase and RTE, tells the story of a man on a desert island who falls in love with a stick. Continue Reading
Valentine’s Day with Friends: Ross, Rachel and love worth waiting for
Ah, love sweet sitcom-engineered love. Ross and Rachel were the emotional will-they-won’t they centrepiece of the Friends sitcom, which ran from 1994 to 2004. While you could argue that theirs was a wholly unhealthy dynamic, those of us with a more romantic view of the world, including hosts Debra Minoff Continue Reading
Love, true fictional love: My favourite couples from the pages of literature
* This post originally appeared on writingbar.com* Love, it has been said, is a “many-splendoured thing”, and while that sentiment was uttered in the context of the 1955 film and song of the same name, it holds true for literature too. With the exception of dystopian storytelling, where romance Continue Reading
A gorgeous bunch of pixelated roses: my 5 favourite sci-fi/fantasy TV couples
Ain’t love grand? Well for the most part. Granted in real life, it has its moments when real life rather rudely gets in the way, and instead of endless bouquets of roses, and chocolates flown from a small chocolatier in Paris, we get re-heated leftovers and a few M Continue Reading