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'The Place Beyond The Pines' Haiku Contest: Rhapsodize About Ryan Gosling & Win A Prize Pack

'The Place Beyond The Pines' Haiku Contest: Rhapsodize About Ryan Gosling & Win A Prize Pack

Ryan Gosling has inspired a coloring book, so why not some poetry? If Baby Goose's portrayal of a motorcycle-riding, bank-robbing daddy in Derek Cianfrance's impressive The Place Beyond The Pines intrigues you, then keep reading. Movieline has a cool music-oriented prize pack to give away to the contestant who impresses me the most with a haiku about the actor's role and/or performance.  more »

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WATCH: Don't Judge 'The Place Beyond The Pines' By These Three Videos

WATCH: Don't Judge 'The Place Beyond The Pines' By These Three Videos

Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond The Pines remains among my favorite unreleased movies since I saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, it's testament to the movie's satisfying complexity that these three video clips don't really convey the emotional wallop that the film packs. more »

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Toronto Film Festival Pick Ups; Beasts Of The Southern Wild Wins Deauville Prize: Biz Break

Toronto Film Festival Pick Ups; Beasts Of The Southern Wild Wins Deauville Prize: Biz Break

In Monday's round-up of news briefs, a quick look at weekend pick ups at the Toronto International Film Festival including The Place Beyond the Pines, Aftershock, Great Expectations and more that will head to a theater (hopefully) near you. Also Beasts Of The Southern Wild takes a top prize at the Deauville Film Festival in France.
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Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes Head Strong Cast In Powerful The Place Beyond The Pines

Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes Head Strong Cast In Powerful The Place Beyond The Pines

The night began with a little celebrity-fueled silliness.  As Ryan Gosling arrived at the Princess of Wales Theater in Toronto for the premiere of his latest picture, The Place Beyond The Pines, a crowd of eager fans barged across traffic-stalled King Street to swarm the object of their affection. But once Gosling's second film with filmmaker Derek Cianfrance — they made the remarkably pure heartbreaker Blue Valentine together — got started, it was clear that the two friends and a remarkable cast that included Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes and Ben Mendelsohn had made a seriously good movie. more »

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REVIEW: Eva Mendes Brings Warmth — and the Hotcha-Cha Factor — to Girl in Progress

REVIEW: Eva Mendes Brings Warmth — and the Hotcha-Cha Factor — to Girl in Progress

Teenage Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez) is lacking in role models. Her father’s unknown, her best friend (Raini Rodriguez) is faithful but a little dull, and her mother Grace (Eva Mendes) is a hotcha-cha mess who dates married dudes and behaves less like a mom than a deadbeat roommate. So when her English teacher (Patricia Arquette, vital in a too-brief role) introduces the concept of the coming-of-age narrative, hyper-precocious Ansiedad decides to use it as a kind of emancipation blueprint.
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VIDEO: Your Official Guide to Looking Like Ryan Gosling

VIDEO: Your Official Guide to Looking Like Ryan Gosling

"Next week I'll teach you how to live like Ryan Gosling. This will involve you getting in a time machine, going back in time, becoming more talented than you currently are, working yourself through the ranks of Hollywood, then dating Eva Mendes." Don't forget about breaking up a street fight!
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Watch Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes in Their First Collaboration: Drunk History Christmas

If you worship at the altar of tabloid courtships, you know that Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have been linked romantically since working together on Derek Cianfrance's crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines earlier this year. But thanks to a new Funny or Die video, gossip hounds won't have to wait until 2012 to see the rumored couple together onscreen. Check out the pair's first official collaboration below, appropriately titled "Drunk History Christmas."

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