You don't need to go to a blockbuster movie every week to see a good film. Although big-budget movies can be exciting, art-house films bring a dynamic that is rarely seen in most big-budget films.

I want a romantic comedy that is both funny and romantic, while avoiding altogether the obligatory stereotypes, the clichés and the predictable plot lines which have been recycled and reshaped for too many years. That's all I want. Can't I have that? Jason Todd Ipson's film "Everybody Wants to Be Italian" makes a noteworthy attempt to give me what I know I can't have, but ends up falling into the unavoidable trap of standard genre filmmaking.