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Let’s face it. Ryan Gosling is hot. He’s so smoking, where no matter what project he’s attached to, it’ll do nicely because there are groups who adore him. That’s why I believe he was cast to play Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy. As for why see it, I believe that’s because Emily Blunt steals the spotlight. There’s a fire that I haven’t seen for a long time; she’s like the spitfire Rachel Weisz in The Mummy!

In the past, La La Land cemented this actor’s status as leading man material. To see him and Emma Stone together recall why Hollywood is the place for making movie magic. He made me The Believer, and as for genre works, he’s fairly decent in Blade Runner 2099. But as far as Barbie is concerned, that’s a work I refuse to acknowledge as cinema. It’s a huge commercial to sell dolls. As for how it deals with feminism and challenging the masculine norm, I’ll leave that to others to debate.

As for his latest effort, it’ll certainly come to GQ’s attention to call him hunk of the year. Sadly, this movie is mindless entertainment, and I don’t think it even tries to honour the work stunt people do. Jackie Chan’s Ride On (review) does a better job. All this blockbuster does is to broaden both lead’s sex appeal. As for all the fancy stunts attempts, it’s all style, no substance.

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By Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest) The_Nice_Guys_poster

I knew I would be looking for Gil Gerard‘s potential return to the entertainment industry after talking to him about his career last year. He briefly talked about his appearance in Shane Black’s The Nice Guys, which wrapped filming but could not say much. This writer/director is also known for movies like Iron Man 3, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Lethal Weapon. Due to his contractual obligations, he could not reveal too much about his role, but for an actor I grew to admire since playing two phenomenal leads, in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Side Kicks, I was keeping my eye out for him.

This neo-noir crime drama buddy film set in the late 70’s (there was a Jaws 2 billboard in the backdrop) has all the makings to set up a pair of unlikely detectives going out to solve a crime a la Starsky and Hutch. Although the year 1977 was prominently introduced, the shark movie was released a year later. Goofs aside, the fun energy from Lethal Weapon still carries in this film, and it sets up a nearly similar pairing. When Holland March (Ryan Gosling) is put on the case to find Amelia Kutner (Margaret Qualley) and she’s hired Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) to tell Holland to stay away, the case may seem easy to handle, but it’s not. Suddenly, they are thrust into the snuff film industry where she’s hiding out, and Misty Mountains becomes involved in the shenanigans because Kutner gets involved in a project where she reveals herself to be an activist. She wants to tear down the hold Detroit has in the automobile production and gas industry. Amusingly, March jokes about how electric cars will become the future. The subtext about the pollution problem (smog) in Los Angeles is glossed upon. Maybe a bit of hammering could have helped add to make this story all the more poignant.

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