On Valentine’s Day, they’re debuting their his-and-hers movie-review shtick on FOX 5, where they’ll offer dueling lists of their most-romantic flicks and their takes on new releases.
The couple says their taste in films is similar — mostly. “Lauren liked the ‘Twilight’ movies, and I thought they were generally garbage,” says McCarthy, a Newport News native. Veneziani, who hails from southern Maryland, notes that their reviewing styles are totally different. “I focus a lot on the actors, and he tends to look at the filmmaking.”
Love between film fanatics has its benefits. “When I do something special for her,” he says — like, for example booking their next vacation to attend a festival celebrating one of their favorite movies, “True Romance” — “it’s also going to be something that I’m excited about too.”
Plus, dinner and a movie as a date-night itinerary never gets old.