April | 2026 | A Screenwriters Perspective: Current and Past Movies.

The new film “You, Me & Tuscany” is what I would call a light romantic comedy, a mostly run-of-the-mill, forgettable two hours.

The upside of this mostly average story and movie are the locations and vistas of Tuscany, Italy, which has been the location of other movies in the past, the most memorable is the Diane Lane film “Under the Tuscan Sun”, released in 2003.

This story has been told many times before: two people, each carrying their own emotional baggage, find themselves in Tuscany under unexpected circumstances. In this case, the main character, Anna, played by Halle Bailey, finds herself in Tuscany, after a small fling with a man she meets at a restaurant, even though she has almost no money, and only because she saw that this man, she met Marco Calvani, is wealthy and his house in Tuscany is empty. Then Anna meets and is attracted to Marco’s brother Micheal, played by Regé-Jean Page, setting the stage for some insane drama at the end of this story.

The Rotten Tomatoes are a correct and predictable 69%, because there is nothing new here, just another run of the mill romatic comedy story. I agree with this rating and do not recommend this movie.

The new movie “The Drama” starring Robert Pattinson as Charlie and Zendaya as Emma starts out as a typical relationship, engagement, and eventual marriage, but soon degrades into an uncomfortable, strange and very risky direction, where, during a “Truth or Dare” Emma tells her husband and two friends about a thought she had at age 15, where she was considering killing her fellow students in a school sdhooting. Clearly, if there had been any recent school shooting in the United States, this movie would not have been released on April 3, 2026, if ever. I was amazed that a screenplay like this was greenlit and two famous and very bankable stars like Pattinson and Zendaya agreed to act in this movie, considering the extremely sensitive subject of school shootings. Every time we all think that we have not seen a school shooting in a while, this is when another one or several more happen again.

The rest of this story is about the problems that Emma and Charlie understandably have in their relationship after this horrendous revelation about Emma is known. Another way of looking at this story is, why would Emma ever admit to anyone that she had sick thoughts of shooting many school children when she was 15 years old?

There is a major climax during Charlie and Emma’s wedding, and I remember wondering why they got married, considering Charlie’s many episodes of huge doubt about Emma’s mental health.

The Rotten Tomatoes are a way too high 79%, with my rating at 50%, mainly for the very bad premise of this movie, which does not give respect to the many victims of school shootings in this country. This film is another one to miss.