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Review: Crazy, Stupid, Love

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(via Collider)

Romantic comedies are a genre long since devoid of creativity and originality which is what makes Crazy Stupid Love remarkable. While the movie flirts with cliché it never truly crosses over with directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (I Love You Phillip Morris) daringly walking that razors edge without blinking.

Steve Carrel plays Cal Weaver an unfashionable 40-something who’s slept with only one woman. That would be Emily (Julian Moore) his wife who’s tired of being taken for granted so much so that she sleeps with co-worker David Lindhagen (the ever reliable Kevin Bacon seeming to find his niche as a douche these days) and promptly kicks Cal to the curb. From the ashes of Cal’s crumbling world rises Jacob Palmer (the comically apt Ryan Gosling – apparently omnipresent in 2011), a smooth talking and Old Fashion drinking player of the highest calibre. You see where this is going – or do you? Like I said it flirts with cliché. While Miyagi-ing Cal Jacob falls for hard to get Hannah (the beautiful Emma Stone) and like cream the love and the crazy rise to the surface.

This touching story of first love, lasting love and all the loves in between is a cut above. Don’t let the title fool you there is nothing stupid about this movie.

New Gangster Squad trailer

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Now with 100% less theater shootings and 50% more family friendly gun violence. I’m assuming there is such a thing.
Following the July Aurora shooting Gangster Squad changed its release date to January, removed the theater shooting that took place in the original print and reshot a few scenes. We’ll probably have to wait a few years to see what impact the new scenes have on the movie but the trailer is looking sharp. While Ryan Gosling took up most of the trailer much of its gravitas came from Nolte (Who’s looking more like The Thing from Fantastic Four these days. Just scary.) and Penn (who’s in a league of scary of his own). Brolin was almost missable. However, I trust we’ll see more of him in the movie.

 

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In theaters January 11

The Australian trailer for The Amazing Spiderman

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The Australian trailer has minimal new footage. The only new stuff we see is of Peter skating through traffic, telling Gwen he’s going to throw her out the window and his remark about football being “too dangerous”. Of course if you were to blink you may just miss these. No word yet as to what the six minute preview (supposed to have been attached to the midnight IMAX 3D screenings of MIB3 on Thursday) showed but here’s hoping it goes online soon.

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For those of you wanting a better look at the movie’s villain here’s an amazing photo of The Lizard that can be found at Stark Industries (click to enlarge and increase the horror).

The Amazing Spiderman opens July 3.

OSCORP’s animal dynamics lab

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Just finished the latest puzzle released on the OSCROP site. They’re mildly amusing and aren’t too easy, which is good, and stick with the whole chemistry theme. Seems The Amazing Spiderman marketing team release the new games on Monday. Only one more left so check that out next week. This week it was “Molecular Nesting”. Completed all 16 phases and ended up with this:

Haven’t been able to decipher it as yet. Could the shapes correspond to molecules (would certainly fit with the theme) but then what of the letters? The periodic table doesn’t have an element that’s identified as “E” or “L” alone.

Last week’s puzzle resulted in this:

Even more cryptic. Certainly the man to ask about these would be @ScaleSeeker but he seems to be mum on the subject at the moment. We’ll have to see if next week’s puzzle will shed more light on the matter.

New Gangster Squad images

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New images for Warner Bros’ Gangster Squad starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling have been released.

(via the official website)

Here’s the official synopsis:

“Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and—if he has his way—every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop…except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.“

Directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) from a screenplay by Will Beall (TV’s Castle) Gangster Squad is described as “a colorful retelling of events surrounding the LAPD’s efforts to take back their nascent city from one of the most dangerous mafia bosses of all thime.”

It also stars:

“Oscar® nominee Nick Nolte (“Affliction,” “The Prince of Tides”) as LAPD Chief “Whiskey Bill” Parker; Emma Stone as Grace Faraday, Cohen’s moll and the object of Wooters’ attention; Robert Patrick (“Flags of Our Fathers”) as Officer Max Kennard, a deadly cop who patrols the Olvera Street beat; Michael Peña (“Battle Los Angeles”) as Kennard’s over-eager sidekick, Navidad Ramirez; Giovanni Ribisi (“Avatar”) as the force’s Conway Keeler, an electronics expert who takes as much pleasure in fixing his son’s bike as he does tinkering with experimental, military-grade equipment; and Anthony Mackie (“The Adjustment Bureau”) as Coleman Harris, a switchblade-wielding cop who proudly patrols one of the most crime-ridden areas of the city.“

In theaters on September 7.