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The bottle with the note flung into the sea 13 years ago from Canada’s Bell Island.

A love note in a bottle is found years later, an ocean away

Anita and Brad’s message floated all the way from Canada’s Bell Island to Ireland’s west coast – leaving online detectives wondering: Were they still together?

  • Victoria Craw

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Still waiting for Mr Darcy? He might be closer than you think

What better way to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday than to imagine yourself dating her male archetypes?

  • Genevieve Novak
Dakota Johnson plays a matchmaker torn between two men in Celine Song’s Materialists.

Celine Song blew us away with Past Lives. Is Materialists a perfect match?

Billed as a rom-com, the Dakota Johnson-Chris Evans-Pedro Pascal love triangle is actually a rather hard-headed look at marriage.

  • Karl Quinn
Josie with one of their dating flyers.

‘Try dating Josie’: A Melbourne single’s unique approach to finding love

A diehard romcom fan has posted old-school flyers around inner Melbourne in a quest to find dates.

  • Sophie Aubrey

This horror movie about toxic men will make you laugh. You’ll need to

Sophie Thatcher’s robot companion is the kind of 1960s woman that every incel dreams of. But things are not that simple.

  • Michael Idato
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The sex lives of elves and fairies? Welcome to the world of ‘romantasy’

This popular book genre is taking readers into magical worlds and earning the authors millions of dollars.

  • Georgie Gordon
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Colin Firth, Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant starred in the original instalment in the adventures of Helen Fielding’s scatty heroine.

I’m glad Mark Darcy is dead, and I hope Hugh Grant murdered him

Bridget Jones fans are furious after a preview for the new film revealed her long-time love interest is dead. But I couldn’t be happier.

  • Meg Watson
From A Family Affair to The Idea of You, “cougar comedies” are making a comeback.

Age-gap romantic comedies are back. Here’s why that’s good – and bad

Older women have been dating younger men on-screen for decades. What do these movies tend to have in common?

  • Nell Geraets
Nicole Kidman.

Nicole Kidman deserves more than this insipid Netflix romcom

The Oscar winner co-stars with Zac Efron in the sort of formulaic romance that is fast becoming a streaming staple.

  • Karl Quinn
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A new book about Bridget Jones, but not that Bridget Jones

A librarian named after the famed unlucky-in-love heroine shares her namesake’s misfortune in a new novel.

  • Cherie Gilmour

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