About the Author
My name is Heidi Rice and Im a romance junkie in search of movie bliss! I write sexy, sassy love stories for the Harlequin KISS line, but in my other job I work as a film journalistwhich means watching a lot of movies. Ive made it my lifes work to keep an eye out for those movies that can blow my mind or stir my soul or wrap a great big ahh around my heart (or do all three of those things). In other words, movies that can give me the same kick as reading my favorite romance novels. This ebook contains a selection of some of my Bliss movieshopefully a few of them will be (or may become) your Bliss movies, too.
Booklist
Cosmo Red-Hot Reads from Harlequin
10 Ways to Handle the Best Man (on sale now!)
Harlequin KISS
Too Close for Comfort (June 2013)
Maid of Dishonor (September 2013)
Coming Soon
Beach, Bar, Baby, June 2014 (Harlequin KISS)
Harlequin Presents
Heidi has a further twelve titles available as ebook that were published in Harlequin Presents and Presents Extra. Check out Harlequin.com.
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Escaping Christmas (December 2013)
Christmas Nights with the Polo Player (December 2013)
Shivers Box Set (January 2014)
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Movie Bliss: A Hopeless Romantic Seeks Movies to Love (January 2014)
Contemporary Romance Box Set (February 2014)
Paranormal & Urban Fantasy Box Set (March 2014)
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Harlequin KISS author and film journalist Heidi Rice indulges her inner chick-flick bitch with her take on some of the greatest romantic movies of all time, some movies which boast wonderful touchy-feely moments and a few others that you may never have heard of but will soon wish you had.
Whether youre looking to have a fabulous Girls Night In, planning to drag your other half to a darkened cinema on a secret mission to ogle Ryan Goslings nekkid pecs, stuck indoors with bored children on a rainy day, or simply trying to cajole your teenage sons into watching something with a little heart and soul alongside the blood, sweat and firepower Have no fear; Heidi is here to celebrate what women want in a great movie experience. So if it be Hughs sculpted abs gilded by campfire light, Rhett and Scarlett bickering their way through the American Civil War, Meryl cooking boeuf bourguignon (and Alec Baldwin) to within an inch of their lives or Bradley and Jennifer learning to tap-dance, badly, this is so the movie guide for you.
Glossary
Buff, Buffer, Buffest: Men who make you drool. Henry Cavill being a case in point.
Chick-Flick: A film where the action is mostly in the snarky, snappy, sexy dialogueand there are a lot more fluffy-cuddly bits than a dick-flick.
Dick-Flick: A film that overdoses on gun action, or car action, or spy action, or sci-fi action or all of the above. And it tends to stint on the fluffy-cuddly bits. (I.e., the opposite of a chick-flick, really.)
Harlequin KISS Hero/Heroine: This Harlequin hero is still alpha, but hes also a whole lot of flirty funas are the women who can tame him. Hes gonna be smart, sexy and successful, but shes going to be able to match him every step of the way. He could be Clark Gables hitch-hiking reporter in It Happened One Night , cartoon bad boy Flynn Ryder in Tangled or Jake Gyllenhaals flirty, dirty Viagra salesman in Love & Other Drugs , while she could be Meg Ryans orgasm-faking Sally in When Harry Met Sally or Joanne Woodwards Newman-taming smart cookie in The Long, Hot Summer . Shes gonna have to put her heart on the line with this guywhile making sure he never gets the upper hand!
Harlequin Presents Hero: This is the ultimate alpha male in the Harlequin universe. Were talking the hot guy whos at the top of his game. Powerful, protective, overpoweringa guy you dont want to mess with (but secretly cant resist). For the purposes of this movie-review book, were talking Daniel Day-Lewis in Last of the Mohicans , Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind or Daniel Craig in Skyfall and larger than life in every respect.
Heart-Warming Romance : The home of Harlequin American Romance, Harlequin Romance and Harlequin Heartwarming, featuring tough, tender and always relatable heroes and heroines. Look no further than Dear Frankie or Its a Wonderful Life for a Heart-Warming Romance fix on screen.
Nekkid: That would be Hugh Jackman in Australia and Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal and several other hunks I havent mentioned specificallyso you can be pleasantly surprised when you see the movie.
Romance-arama : A word that I am myself patenting to mean a film with enough different stories to make you dizzy. Coined here to apply to Valentines Day and Hes Just Not That Into You, but also applicable to such movies as Love Actually .
Series Romance: This is the stuff Harlequin is made ofsmall books with big themes, hot heroes, heroines just like you and a happy ending. Be warned: not every film in this collection has a happy ending, but they all have a whole lot of heart.
Table of Contents
1) Oldies That Are Awesome
Who says you need CGI, SFX, 3D or even colour film to do some amazing storytelling?
It Happened One Night (1934): A Hitch-hikers Guide to Screwball Romance