Tony winner Lesley Manville has joined the cast of Prime Video romcom series Escorted. Manville will play Terri, mother of Denny, played by Brett Goldstein. “A charisma bomb cabaret legend, Terri is a force of nature with the voice to match,” reads her character synopsis. Escorted is produced, written and co-showrun by Goldstein via his […]

There’s no meet-cute in “Office Romance,” but the way its lovers meet is pretty cute just the same. Formidable airline CEO Jackie Cruz (Jennifer Lopez) summons her new company lawyer Daniel Blanchflower (Brett Goldstein) to her office, and he walks in to see what, in cinematic terms, we shall term the full J-Lo: She’s facing […]

No doubt Jennifer Lopez currently is queen of the failing rom-com genre, a once-vibrant Hollywood staple that studios sadly relegated mostly to streaming in recent times. Of course there have been exceptions that made a splash in theaters, notably sleeper hit Anyone but You in 2024. Generally, though, this isn’t the case, at least for […]