The Spotlight: “Scary” Movies & TV
A friend and TBBC crew member asked me today, “Can you recommend a movie that really scares me?” Now, after going through all the obvious answers that we can agree upon as a society: Jaws (1975) (I was convinced Jaws could appear in a pool thanks to this movie which ruined weekly trip’s to Nanna’s pool), The Exorcist (1973), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Deliverance (1972). Man, the 70s were dark, huh? I...
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 Place Beyond The Pines
The Place Beyond the Pines 140 minutes. Rated R. “He can get his own girl and his own kid, that’s every man’s right.”...
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...
Drive
100 minutes. Rated R. Irene: “What do you do?” Driver: “I drive.” Did you ever watch a movie and think that it should have been made in a different era? That was my feeling while I was watching Drive. I kept thinking the director, Nicholas Winding Refn, wished it was the 70s or 80s, with the heavy synth music, and driving scenes through the silent streets of L.A. at night. In a way, this film has more in common with a Clint Eastwood...
