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Movie review: Melodramatic 'Wedding' works after all (The Capital Times) - Wow, you could make a bad movie out of "After the Wedding." The melodramatic surprises in Danish filmmaker Susannah Bier's follow-up to the outstanding "Brothers" would be prime ingredients for a Lifetime movie-of-the-week thriller, filled to the brim with bathos and phony sentiment.

Newlyweds 'Need To Consider Home Insurance' (The Motley Fool) - Newlyweds have been urged to review their home insurance cover soon after the big day following reports that wedding gifts are getting ever-more extravagant.

Taming Bridezilla With a Great Wedding Novel: The First-Ever Bridal Book Club Is at Pash! (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - Brides under constant wedding stress are often known to blow a fuse and morph into Bridezilla, but at PashWeddings.com, brides are laughing and joking over a great wedding novel. Now, a new book club focused solely on bridal-themed novels has turned a country of about-to-snap brides into calmer versions of their original selves.

Veteran teacher turns a page; Hickman Review founder to retire. (Columbia Daily Tribune) - After more than 20 years of teaching Hickman High School students how to put their thoughts on paper, Carol Stevenson is writing a new chapter in her own life.

FILM REVIEW: Blind Dating (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) - Blind Dating

Short Subjectives (Creative Loafing Atlanta) - Capsule reviews of recently reviewed movies... Opening Friday AFTER THE WEDDING 3 stars (R) One of this year's Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language film, this Danish drama depicts a schoolteacher in India (Casino Royale's bad guy Mads Mikkelsen) who returns to his native Denmark to woo a potential philanthropist and discovers family ties he didn't know he had at a wedding. Thanks to the ...

Kelly Critic review: "The Boy Friend," Bishop Canevin (April 25-28) (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Read this article ]

DVD Review: Cat People (Blogcritics.org) - Every so often there comes an artist who works in a disrespected genre, yet who has enough talent and vision to almost make that whole genre seem respectable; at least in his own takes on it. And, when two such artists get together, their synergy is even greater. Such was the fortuitous pairing of film producer Val Lewton (née Vladimir Leventin) and film director Jacques Tourneur, who ...

Taming Bridezilla With a Great Wedding Novel: The First-Ever Bridal Book Club Is at Pash! (SYS-CON Media) - and the friendly community of onlinebook club members discuss their own experiences as related to the novel.Guided by questions posted by the author, the members of PashWeddings.com'sbook club share their own humorous experiences, provide advice to oneanother, and perhaps follow the lead of the novel's heroine. Says one Pashbook club member: 'This book is HYSTERICAL!' By virtue of gathering ...

Movie Review: Lucky You (Verde Independent) - With a good cast, a director with some superb movies under his belt and a Las Vegas set, one would assume Curtis Hanson's poker flick, "Lucky You" would be Big Slick.