Articles tagged "ryan gosling"

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: July 2009

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.09] :. In a rare attempt at novelty, July jets along with only Harry Potter and the Ice Age crew sampling continuing series spoils. The rest provide unknown pleasures.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

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Former Disney stars are making ‘Mickey’ proud

by Joseph Dionisio [Newsday (MCT)]

[26.Oct.07] :. It was called “The All New Mickey Mouse Club,” but a better title might have been Tomorrowland. During its 1989-96 run, the Disney Channel variety series delivered a major peek into...

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Ryan Gosling’s latest onscreen love is a real doll

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. LOS ANGELES—Having reinvented the drug addict in “Half Nelson” and then parried with Anthony Hopkins in “Fracture,” Ryan Gosling arrived on the set of “Lars and...

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Film Review

Lars and the Real Girl

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.07] :. This is the reductive conceit of Lars and the Real Girl, Lars' representative incongruity: he's so unlike everyone else that he becomes their cause and sign of sanity.

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Ryan’s reel life: In his quietness, Gosling makes noise

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[26.Apr.07] :. Ryan Gosling has his first Oscar nomination under his belt (for “Half Nelson”), and a very hot thriller now in theaters. But there was a time, long before “Fracture,” before...

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Film Review

Fracture (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Apr.07] :. Part police procedural, part courtroom hijinks, and part cunning murder plot, Gregory Hoblit's new movie brings the usual canards.

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Anthony Hopkins takes another villainous turn in ‘Fracture’

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Hopkins: "When I tell people that I just learn my lines and that's all there is to it, my wife thinks that I'm putting down the craft of acting."

 

‘Fracture’: Cunning, Arrogant, Sinister

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Ted is all wit, charm and ruthlessness. He is Hannibal Lecter without the menu, a creep we can love.

 

Half Nelson (2006)

by Shaun Huston

[12.Feb.07] :. This is one of the best films of 2006.

 

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

 

Half Nelson (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Aug.06] :. Dan's take on history -- as concept and series of events -- has as much to do with his personal past as any ideological leanings. He sees history in motion, as ongoing questions.

 

Stay (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.05] :. Often evocative, sometimes audacious, and finally undone by an inelegant close, Stay is less interested in story than in impressions.

 

The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.04] :. Leland meets a teacher who's been tending to young hard cases for too long.

 

The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Apr.04] :. Leland will come to be instructive and redemptive for others, just as he has tried to find instruction and redemption in others.

 

The Believer (2001)

by Jennifer D. Wesley

[23.Jun.03] :. The film's about the human impetus toward contradiction, about our need to exercise those contradictions, to live them.

 

Murder by Numbers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Apr.02] :. 'Murder by Numbers' isn't about solving the case; it's about solving Cassie (Sandra Bullock).