Crazy Stupid Love
2011. 118 minutes. Rated R. Quote: “I will never stop trying. Because when you find the one… you never give up.” Steve Carrel plays Hal Weaver, a smart, good-on-paper, 40-something dude with all his ducks in a row: a great family, pretty wife, job, nice home. Julianne Moore plays Hal’s wife, Emily Weaver. On what seems like a VERY typical date night for the couple, she steamrolls him with a frank divorce...
The Spotlight: The Ryan Gosling Effect
I’m going to try not to hurl myself into a sloppy drooling mess talking about Ryan Gosling. I’m not usually the kind of person that watches a movie just because there’s an attractive person it (please believe me). Mostly I do that for anything starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, because he never makes bad movies (RIP). But I’ve been led astray with Ryan so much that my boyfriend won’t even watch movies with...
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-man 136 minutes. PG 13. “Thirty-eight of New York’s finest, versus one guy in a unitard.” After coming back to the library after a long weekend, I received a note on my desk. It said, “Please get more Spider-Man books, you only had one and my two children are fighting over it.” When people think of classic children’s literature, they think of The Secret Garden or Charlotte’s...
