Ally Darling (Anna Faris) can’t seem to find “the one” in new movie What’s Your Number? After reading a magazine article that reveals her dwindling marriage aspirations, she begins hunting down her ex-boyfriends — all 20 of them — to find out if she missed her future spouse.  She brings along her mischievous neighbor (Chris Evans), who Ally is helping to avoid his exes.  Based on the book “20 Times a Lady,” What’s Your Number? should be a romantic comedy that keeps you smiling with a typical-goofy Faris who keeps you laughing.

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The job, the husband, the family and the body: Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) has it all — at least on the surface.  Reddy, a financial executive for a big New York company in Boston, is also the main breadwinner and mother of two in I Don’t Know How She Does It.  Problems she has juggling this already busy lifestyle become worse as Reddy makes an ambitious pitch to her boss (Pierce Brosnan) while her husband (Greg Kinnear) lands a new job. Based on a book of the same title, Parker’s character has to learn that everything she aims for has a price.

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With the end of summer comes a new batch of films.  Entertainment reporter Sara Edwards tells us her picks to look for at theatres:

9/2: The Debt

The espionage thriller boasts a stellar cast. The story centers around retired Mossad secret agents Rachel and Stephan played by Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkenson. They discover they need to settle unfinished business started 30 years earlier while on a secret mission for Israel. They were sent to track down a Nazi war criminal, using Rachel as “the lure” to draw him into a trap. Jessica Chastain plays the young Mirren who struggles with her duty when romantic feelings surface. The film bounces back and forth between two time periods with John Madden, who directed “Shakespeare in Love”, at the helm, this promises to be a winner.

9/9: Contagion

Another terrific cast is assembled, this time for a thriller about a highly communicable virus that wipes out millions of people worldwide in just weeks. Amidst the international chaos, Matt Damon plays a Midwesterner whose wife, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, is one of the first to get the disease. Kate Winslet is a doctor for the Center for Disease Control and Marion Cotillard plays a World Health Official. Add Jude Law to the mix as a crusading blogger and Steven Soderbergh as director and you have a recipe for a heart pounding journey.

9/16: I Don’t Know How She Does It!

Carrie fans will be thrilled that Sarah Jessica-Parker is back on the big screen in the romantic comedy about a working Mom who’s high wire act is dangerously starting to come crashing down. The premise isn’t original, but it will be fun to watch her navigate that slippery slope that all too many women cope with every day.

9/23: Moneyball

Based on a true story, Brad Pitt plays Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane as he struggles to reinvent his cash poor and undervauled team in the early 2000s.  But don’t call this just a baseball movie.  Life lessons abound as Pitt and Jonah Hill, a clever young A’s exec, toss out the rule book and realize that thinking outside the box gives everyone a chance to start again.  Word is that Pitt hits this dramedy out of the park!

9/30: 50/50

I’ve loved Joseph Gordon-Levitt ever since he played the sweet and vulnerable guy in 500 Days of Summer. In 50/50 he plays a young man diagnosed with spinal cancer who bonds with his best pal played by Seth Rogen who helps him through the chemo and the tough diagnosis with heart and humor. In real life, Rogen’s best friend went through this harrowing scenario and he asked his pal, now in remission, to write the screenplay. Poignant and funny.

10/7: The Ides of March

George Clooney stars in this. Need I say more?  Ides is a political thriller that takes us inside the intense climate of a presidential campaign. Clooney plays Gov. Mike Morris, an inspiring Democratic candidate, who discovers that his young media strategist has a secret that could destroy his campaign. He’s forced to choose between morality and winning. Clooney co-wrote the script. I’d like to see the Sexiest Man Alive run for office one day!

10/7: Footloose

Come on! Consider this a guilty pleasure, especially if you grew up with Kevin Bacon’s 1985 version.  The new “Ren” is played by 27 year old newcomer Kenny Worlmald of MTV’s Dancelife. And former Dancing with the Stars favorite Julianne Hough is the preacher’s daughter who loves to shake things up on the dance floor.

10/28: Like Crazy

This love story won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance film festival this year. It’s the tale of a long-distance relationship about college lovers who try to sustain that passion on opposite ends of the world. Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin are the appealing couple who are determined to be together despite work, immigration laws, and their own insecurities.

11/04: Tower Heist

The comic dream team of Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller stars in this caper. A group of employees at a luxury apartment complex decide to steal 20 million from one of the residents, a Bernie Madoff type who lost their pension funds in a Ponzi scheme. Given the recession, this stealing from the rich premise becomes even more satisfying, as well as hilarious.

11/18: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One

We finally see Bella and Edward’s long-awaiting wedding and passionate honeymoon consummation.  And then, a half-vampire baby? That’s the big news in the beginning of the end of the insanely popular series.  If you have followed it this far, you will see it through until the bitter end.

11/23: The Descendants

George Clooney au deux! It’s a busy fall for George on the big screen. I have high hopes for this drama helmed by Sideways director Alexander Payne. Clooney is a Hawaiian land baron whose life is turned upside down after his beloved wife goes into a coma and he learns that she’d been having an affair.  A complicated affair of the heart.

12/16: The Iron Lady

Meryl Streep who has recently brought us the likes of Julia Child and Vogue’s dragon lady Anna Wintour to the big screen, this time morphs into former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during her peak of power in the 1980s. The film is about her extraordinary political career, along with the love she sacrificed on the way. Hey, Meryl reading the phone book would be interesting.

12/21: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I loved the Swedish film based on  Stieg Larsson’s best seller, but I’m ready for the American version now. I just can’t get enough of his trouble heroine Lisbeth Salander who is now played by Rooney Mara.  Daniel Craig takes on the role of the Swedish journalist Mikael Blomkist. As a fan of the book I’m looking forward to this, but the pressure is on for director David Fincher to come through!

12/23: We Bought a Zoo

Matt Damon plays Benjamin Mee, a real-life London newspaper columnist who moved his family to a decrepit rural zoo, and after the death of his wife from cancer, worked to reopen it.  As the animals prosper, he finds his own healing gifts. This feel good tearjerker is perfect for the holidays.

12/28: War Horse

Steven Spielberg is back at the helm with a World War I story about a British farm boy who nurtures a pet horse until his father sells the horse to the British Army. He enlists as well and hopes one day to be reunited with his equine pal Joey. Bring hankies to this one too.

12/18: Carnage

Based on the hilarious and searing Broadway production God of Carnage, the top notch cast ofKate Winslet, John C. Reilly, and Oscar winners Christoph Waltz and Jodie Foster star in this film adaptation. Two couples meet to discuss the fight between their two sons. A civil discussion descends into an all out brawl between the parents that will have you laughing out loud. I just hope the movie is as good as the play!

Dexter and Emma (Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway) are two college-friends who sleep together on the night of their college graduation, and then they go their own ways while still remaining friends.  Dexter goes into the entertainment business and Emma becomes a teacher.  The film shows the two of them each year on the anniversary of their college graduation to see where the two are in their lives.  Sometimes they’re apart, and other times, they’re together.  An original idea for a romantic movie, “One Day” captures the power friendship has in a person’s life.

Is it possible to remain just friends after it crosses the line once?

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Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) and his wife Emily (Julianna Moore) live a great life together — that is until she admits she had an affair and wants a divorce.  Now Mr. Weaver is off to play the single world with some help as he plays wingman to Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling), a handsome player.  Sure the makeover is helping Weaver play the field, but one thing that didn’t change is his love for Emily.

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By Ashley DelBello

What drives someone to cheat?  Director and writer Amber Sealey sets out to explore this question in her independent and somewhat provocative film, How To Cheat, which was shown throughout June at the Los Angeles Film Festival.  Typically, when we think of cheating we think of it happening after a night of drinking or unexpectedly, but what happens when a person actually sets out to cheat?

Meet Mark (Kent Osborne), an unhappy husband in his thirties, stuck in a marriage where he and his wife Beth (Amber Sealey) are trying to get pregnant, but are repeatedly unsuccessful. Mark feels like something is missing from his life and that his best years are behind him so he decides to try online dating while still married.  Through these quick snippets of dates, we learn that Mark can’t lie about being married.  Naturally, the majority of the women he meets have an adverse reaction to it.  All, but one, Cue Louise (Amanda Street,) a free spirit with a drinking problem, who is also searching for something to fill a void in her life. She can tell almost immediately that Mark has someone at home, but still continues with the date.  As you can probably guess they end up sleeping with each other and a series of atypical events unfold.

By Diamon Hall

Going to the movies is a reliable, low-key date idea.  However, they might be more enjoyable if the film has a love or relationship theme to it.  Want to know our top picks for you and your honey to look forward to this summer?  Take a look at these five, which are sure to get your hearts’ melting:

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Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) did what most people to do when trying to improve their lives from the ground-up … he went to college.  Crowne was laid off from his big-box company, a job he had since he left the military.  Now with bills to pay and lots of free time, he decides to enroll in classes at his local community college. While there, he befriends a group of scooter-riding outcasts who, like Crowne, are trying to better their positions in life.  Meanwhile, he falls for his public speaking teacher, Mercedes Tainot (Julia Roberts), who has lost her passion for her marriage, career and everything else.  Larry Crowne helps show the life of students in community college and the rising population of non-traditional college students.  Plus, it shows that when someone’s lost everything, he or she may just find a new purpose.

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By Jeanne Bowyer

If you love weddings — and let’s face it, in their heart of hearts, who doesn’t? — there’s nothing like a nice wedding movie to fill up a quiet weekday evening, especially if you’re spending a lot of time and energy planning a wedding of your own.  Break out the popcorn, because we’re about to give you a list of the five top wedding movies you won’t want to miss!

1. 4 Weddings and a Funeral: How much funnier can you get than this movie?  The opening scenes alone are enough to make grown men cry with laughter, and the rest of the film has long rendered it a comedy classic.  Interlaced with moments of real humanity and poignancy, this film will have you laughing — and crying — all the way through.  The characters are real and the storyline will touch your heart — and, of course, it’s the first starring role for the swoon-worthy Hugh Grant, too!

2. The Wedding Singer: Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore make the silver screen come to life with their romantic antics in this gorgeously sweet comedy about love in the eighties!  Set in 1985, the story follows the falling in love of Robbie Hart — the wedding singer — and Julia — a waitress — who are both initially engaged to the wrong people.  Possibly one of Sandler’s finest career moments, this movie is bound to become a favorite and a resident in your DVD or Blu-ray collection.

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By Tanni Deb

From the spaghetti dinner kiss between Lady and the Tramp to John and Savannah’s passionate liplock in Dear John, Hollywood love scenes never fail to make our hearts race.  Although there are plenty of romantic movie kisses that are list-worthy, here are our five favorite onscreen smooches ever:

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Freddie Highmore and Emma Roberts star together as two teenage students in The Art of Getting By.  George (played by Highmore) is a slacking yet gifted artist who falls in love with his new friend Sally (Roberts), a popular yet complicated girl. George has never done a day of work in high school, even though he’s now made it to senior year.  Sally recognizes him as a kindred spirit and reaches out to form a deep friendship.  The Sundance film premiered under the title Homework.

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By Andrew Pryor

It’s true that movies take inspiration from real life, but real life can also take inspiration from a good movie.  So if you’re not looking forward to this summer because you think the passion’s gone away, get inspired by these five movies about summer romance.  These tales of fair-weather flings are sure to raise your temperature and make you want to go looking for your own co-star – or create a love scene with the one you already have:

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A marriage counselor, Ava (Mandy Moore) is thrown for a loop when her parents decide to get a divorce in Love, Wedding, Marriage, which hits theatres June 3rd.  Ava, who has recently married Charlie (Kellan Lutz), is now questioning everything for which her marriage stands.  To counter that feeling, she decides to get her parents back together by moving her father in with her and her new husband, much to Charlie’s dismay.  Through laughs and tears, this family finds a way to make it work despite all the emotional struggles they’re going through.

She’s broke, she’s single and now she’s the maid of honor.  Annie (Kristen Wig) is set to be the maid of honor for her best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and she’s backed up by a rag-tag team of bridesmaids.  Annie has to find a way to surpass her life situation to prove to Lillian and the other bridesmaids how far you’ll go for a best friend. Critics are saying this is The Hangover fused with a chick flick.

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Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a smart, talented and driven attorney at a top law firm in New York. She spends most of her free time with her best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson), who is a bride-to-be … to-be married to Rachel’s longtime crush from law school, that is. Friendships are tested when a series of unexpected events lead Rachel to sleep with Darcy’s fiance (Colin Egglesfield) after celebrating her 30th birthday. Rachel sucks her good friend Ethan (John Krasinski) into the mess, and the three of them try to clean things up while Darcy finds something old, something new, Something Borrowed and something blue.

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Following the death of his parents, Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattinson), a student who is almost finished with his veterinarian degree, jumps on the train that is home to Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.  Before he knows it,  he’s in charge of the caring for the circus menagerie.  While at his “salvation and living hell,” Jankowski meets Marlena (Reese Witherspoon), who is married to August (Christoph Waltz), described as the charismatic yet demented animal trainer who is unable to train a special elephant, Rosie. Water for Elephants has the elements of popular love stories such as The Notebook and Moulin Rogue, while set in a time period where love is something available to very few.

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After being dumped by her sugar daddy, outspoken junior high teacher (Cameron Diaz) starts making drastic attempts to woo a studly colleague (Justin Timberlake). The Bad Teacher’s approach to getting his attention takes an unexpected turn as she slowly starts to get better at her job, and the decision causes her to be up against a highly respected co-worker.

Is it healthy to be in a relationship with a colleague?

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Beastly, a modern day depiction of Beatuy and the Beast, tells the tale of Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer), the ideal handsome high school student who has anything he could ever want.  His only downfall is his love for picking on those inferior to him.  Things take a turn for the worse after Kyle ditches a goth girl (Mary-Kate Olsen), who casts a spell and transforms Kyle into a hideous creature.  The spell can only be broken if he can find someone who’s able to love him for his inner qualities.  Kyle’s father (Peter Krause) isn’t one who can do this, sending Kyle off to live in Brooklyn where he vows to protect a local addict if he lets his beautiful daughter (Vanessa Hudgens) live with Kyle.  Over the course of the film, this couple forms a deep relationship unlike anything Kyle had in high school.

How important is physical attraction in a relationship?

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Two married men (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) are given free week passes by their wives to do whatever their hearts desire with other women.  The dream come true quickly turns into a nightmare when their wives (Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate) start abiding by the rules of the Hall Pass as well.  It doesn’t take them long to discover that this agreement was more imperfect than ingenious as they realize that their marriages are put to the ultimate test.

Is it ever healthy to practice an open marriage?

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Plastic surgeon playboy Danny (Adam Sandler) attracts women in a rather unique fashion — by pretending he’s stuck in a bad marriage in order to ease tension and give them a false sense of trust.  Then the unthinkable happens. Danny meets a woman (Brooklyn Decker) he actually sees a legitimate future with, and gets caught in his “bad marriage” routine. To try to repair the damage, he comes up with an off-the-wall plan and asks his loyal office manager (Jennifer Anniston) to play the role of his future divorcee. Eventually, even her two kids to get involved in his growing lie. Just Go With It comically begs the question: how far should you go to win someone’s heart?

How far should you go to make a relationship work?

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Childhood friends Emma Twist (Rachel Bilson, New York I Love You) and Will Donner (Tom Surridge, Like Minds) may have drifted apart as they grew up, but they always kept a special place for each other in their hearts.   When Emma returns to her hometown to be by her ailing father’s side, she reunites with Will once again.  Confused and distressed about her failing career and rocky love life, can Will remind Emma that what they had growing up was more than best friend material? Waiting for Forever tells the unique love story of two best friends separated by life and brought back together for a second chance.

When is it okay to go from being just friends to something more?

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Emma (Natalie Portman) and Adam (Ashton Kutcher) have been close friends for as long as they can remember.  One morning they make the mistake of a lifetime; they sleep together.  In an effort to keep their friendship intact, Emma proposes something that Adam would be a fool to refuse — a relationship with no strings attached.  They can do whatever they want with whomever they want with no consequences whatsoever.  It sounds great, right?  Only one small problem: what happens if one of them actually falls in love?  Filled with a cast who are hard not to love, No Strings Attached brings humor to one of life’s most often debated questions.  Can a friendship survive a relationship?

Should you date your best friend?

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From Academy Award winning director Ron Howard comes a tale of friendship in the January release of The Dilemma.  This particular friendship, a bromance between Ronny (Vince Vaughn, Wedding Crashers) and Nick (Kevin James, Hitched) is stretched to the limit when Ronny catches Nick’s wife, Geneva (Winona Ryder, Black Swan) with another man.  Should Ronny tell his BFF the truth of his wife’s indiscretions, or keep his lips sealed and wait for Geneva to come clean on her own?  Packed with a star-studded cast, The Dilemma promises to bring bros closer than ever before in this year’s winter rom-com.

Should you keep secrets from those you love?

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By Erika Mionis

2010 has been a big year for movies.  Sequels like Iron Man 2 and Toy Story 3 have ruled at the box office, while animated films like Despicable Me and How to Train Your Dragon have made their marks as well.  Those aside, the year was also particularly crammed with many a chick flick.  From romantic comedies (When in Rome, Knight and Day) to romantic dramas (Dear John, Remember Me), nearly all of the movies have had easily identifiable themes and laughs that we learned from and enjoyed.  Out of all the great romantic movies we have seen this year, the following have had lessons that effortlessly apply in the real world:

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