Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is an ambitious matchmaker in New York City. Whilst at the wedding of her latest success story she meets a dating unicorn in Harry (Pedro Pascal). He is 6 feet tall, rich, charming, physically fit and intelligent. Lucy asks if she could sign him up as a client but he gives her … Continue reading Materialists
When Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) moves to a new High School he instantly falls for Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), but thanks to her father’s strict rules she is not allowed to date unless her older, anti-social sister Kat (Julia Stiles) starts dating. So Cameron comes up with the crazy plan to pay the school bad boy Patrick … Continue reading 10 Things I Hate About You
Two elite snipers are hired to protect opposite sides of a mysterious gorge and together will find themselves battling the evil that lays within whilst trying to discover its secret. Levi (Miles Teller) is an ex-marine sniper. Jaded, tormented by nightmares and alone. Despite having been deemed unfit for duty by a military psychologist he … Continue reading The Gorge
When Emily (Julianne Moore) asks Cal (Steve Carell) for a divorce he is completely blindsided. Oblivious to the fact that he has lost his sense of self it takes new friend Jacob (Ryan Gosling) to open his eyes to a new found self respect. Crazy, Stupid, Love is a romantic comedy that starts with the … Continue reading Crazy, Stupid, Love.
The story of how Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) fall in and out of love. Cross-cutting the couple's tender beginnings with their bitter ending. Completing my double bill of Ryan Gosling characters falling in and out of love I watched 2010’s Blue Valentine. A much more gritty and contemporary love story compared to … Continue reading Blue Valentine
Romy (Nicole Kidman) is a high powered CEO with a successful husband (Antonio Banderas) and two teenage children. But when she meets Samuel (Harris Dickinson), a much younger intern at her company she finds herself in a torrid affair that caters to her deepest darkest fantasies. When we first meet Romy she is faking an … Continue reading Babygirl
Whilst living in a care home an elderly man (James Garner) reads to a woman with dementia (Gena Rowlands). The story he tells is a romance between a young man (Ryan Gosling) and woman (Rachel McAdams) in the 1940’s whose class differences threaten their love. Despite The Notebook releasing in 2004 I have never watched … Continue reading The Notebook
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