Slant Magazine's film section is your gateway to some of the web's most incisive and biting film criticism and features. Case 39 is a 2009 American supernatural psychological horror film directed by Christian Alvart, and starring Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley Cooper and Ian. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far- off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world. Rating: R (for language)Genre: Directed By: Written By: In Theaters: Apr 7, 2. On Disc/Streaming: Aug 1, 2. Box Office: $3,0. Runtime. 1. 10 minutes.
Entertainment News. The Notebook. Cast. Ryan Gosling, Rachel Mc. Adams, Gena Rowlands. Opening shots tend to say a lot about a movie, but they say everything about The Notebook, a glossy adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' four- hanky sudser. Over a twinkling piano, director Nick Cassavetes sets the scene of a thousand paperback romances: A lone boatman paddling against a blazing sunset, a woman staring wistfully from the garret of a lakeside plantation, a flock of seagulls flapping toward her window in slow motion. Subtract the references to Walt Whitman and Ernest Hemingway, slap on a cover with flowing locks and heaving bosoms, and the film could be a smash at supermarket checkout counters nationwide. There's plenty of tension inherent in The Notebook, which pairs a strapping lumberjack with a wealthy debutante, but none of the elder Cassavetes' passion and grit; instead, the film leaves an oft- told tale to marinate slowly in its own syrup. As his beloved Gena Rowlands withers away in a nursing home from Alzheimer's, James Garner tries to jog her memory by reading the story of their lives together, prompting a flashback to their youths in 1. Garner stand- in Ryan Gosling stars as a humble yet free- spirited country boy who falls for rich girl Rachel Mc. Adams, over the objections of her snooty parents, played by Joan Allen and Josef Stalin look- alike David Thornton. When Mc. Adams' family moves to upstate New York and WWII begins, the young lovers are forced apart, as Gosling fights bravely for the Allies in Europe and Mc. Adams volunteers as a nurse, swooning over wounded stud James Marsden. But Gosling's steadfast love, manifested in a beautifully restored Southern plantation house, draws them together in a chance rendezvous. But those not suffering from Alzheimer's may find it a bit too familiar. At one point, Gosling and Mc. Adams even marvel at the improbability of a city girl and a country boy falling in love, as if they'd necked through all the movies in which that happens. Lingering memories of Gosling's turn as a neo- Nazi in The Believer give his character an edge that the film desperately needs, but his hard features melt at all the appropriate beats. In a romance where paradise is a duck- filled pond, it helps to be mild- mannered.
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