Wow! I’ve just seen the trailer for Ryan Gosling’s debut as a filmmaker – he writes and directs – and it is something else entirely: eerie, otherworldly, downright strange. In a good way. Nicolas Winding Refn strange – as opposed to Uwe Boll strange. It’s called Lost River (formerly How To Catch a Monster) and is described […]
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Blue Wedding Director Teams Up with Ryan Gosling for Action/Drama!
The first time director Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling teamed up the result was Blue Valentine. With Focus Features’ The Place Beyond the Pines, the two collaborate on a sweeping emotional drama that powerfully explores the unbreakable bond between fathers and sons – plus motorcycle stunts and bank robberies. The Place Beyond the Pines opens […]
The Other Guys: There’s a New Accountant in Town!
It’s taken all of a week for Dinner for Schmucks to be replaced as the funniest movie of the summer, so far – especially because The Other Guys is the unlikeliest of movies – a funny parody of cop/buddy movies. Unlikely because there have been so many in the genre that more than a few […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Spirit Made My Toes Curl – But I Kinda Liked It!
In a summer during the early-to-mid sixties, I surreptitiously acquired a copy of a specific issue of Playboy – not for the pictures, though those were nice, but for an essay on The Great Comic Book Heroes, by Jules Feiffer. It was about comic characters from the Golden Age of Comics [approximately 1939-1946 – your […]