Blue Valentine (movie)

Ryan Gosling in 'The Place Beyond the Pines': The eyes have it

2013-04-04 06:30:00

Ryan Gosling, currently starring opposite his real-life love Eva Mendes in the darkly wrought drama of "The Place Beyond the Pines," is always chemically combustible on screen. That romantic power crystallized early on in 2004's "The Notebook." His rain-...

Valentine's Day gift guide: Totally her

2013-02-10 00:00:00

Beyond the sappy cards and seemingly endless rows of heart-shaped chocolate boxes, there are, indeed, some stylish ways to celebrate the woman in your life this Valentine's Day. Win points in the romance department by moving beyond grocery store floral...

High hopes, low notes for film world's NC-17 rating

2012-08-18 08:30:00

In the late '80s a thunderbolt of inspiration struck Jack Valenti, longtime chief of the Motion Picture Assn. of America: What if his organization got rid of the X rating, besmirched by years of misappropriation by hard-core exploitation films, and...

Toronto Film Festival to open with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 'Looper'

2012-07-24 09:16:00

The Toronto International Film Festival has chosen "Looper," director Rian Johnson's "thinking-man actioner" starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, to open its 10-day event starting Sept. 6.�The film stars Gordon-Levitt as a time-traveling...

Oscar oversights include some Hollywood heavyweights

2011-01-26 00:00:00

In writer-director Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller "Inception," Leonardo DiCaprio portrays a dream-time cat burglar who smuggles ideas in and out of people's minds. But on Tuesday, many Oscar prognosticators felt that "Inception" itself had gotten...

'Rabbit Hole,' other films place marriage in Oscar spotlight

2011-01-06 00:00:00

We've had Johnny and June in "Walk the Line," Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda's grouchy old-timers in "On Golden Pond" and real-life marrieds Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton bickering their way through "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" But they'...

'The King's Speech,' 'True Grit' top Academy Award nominations

2011-01-25 06:46:00

"The King's Speech" dominated the Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, earning 12 nods including best picture and best lead actor for Colin Firth as King George VI, who battles to eradicate his stammer before he unexpectedly takes the throne. Joel and...

Movie review: 'Meek's Cutoff'

2011-04-22 00:00:00

The MPAA makes good on 'Blue Valentine,' but the board's subjective rating system still baffles

2010-12-08 21:34:31

Film review: 'Blue Valentine'

2010-12-30 16:35:27

'Blue Valentine': Is it a movie about sex or about class?

2011-01-05 16:32:28

The plain truths of Oscar winners

2010-11-18 00:00:00

Ozark waitresses turned boxers. Los Angelenos battling over racial and social inequality. Boston's criminal element and a do-gooder detective. A West Texas cowboy and a satchel of money. A slum kid from India and a game show. Bomb specialists in Iraq...

Then: The new girl in town, who dared to leave her virginity behind in the big city. The series began with Jen Lindley's arrival in Capeside, and ended with her final goodbye as she passed away from a heart complication. Appropriate, no?

2012-10-23 13:28:00

"I don't have an answer for why that movie ["Black Swan"] would be OK and ours wouldn't," Cianfrance said at the time, calling the NC-17 rating "a form of censorship." "There's not an ounce of skin, and it's not gratuitous in any way. I'm confused and baffled.

2012-08-14 12:58:36

Having demonstrated tough-guy bona fides and an icy command of motor vehicles in last year's "Drive," Ryan Gosling now stars as a motorcycle stuntman who turns to crime to provide for his young family, pitting him against an ambitious police officer, played by Bradley Cooper.

2012-07-30 14:23:00