#ryan-gosling

What does courage mean in your own life if heroism does not arrive as a choice but as a crisis that drags you forward before you feel ready? That is the question that stayed with me after Project Hail Mary. Okay, okay. I am know I am late to the review, but they just released the film on streaming last week. The movie’s plot is not only about saving humanity from impending disaster. It is about…

I’m still thinking about Project Hail Mary. Honestly, I’m not trying to fix the book or the film, both of which I did genuinely enjoy, but once these odd niggling thoughts happen, then I write about them, and you have to read them. That’s the deal. The niggling thought came from thinking about the direction of the film from the book. The nature of a film adaptation is a change in the emphasis…

The etymology of modesty is the Latin modestus which means or is related to measuring, which is similar to the Baptist mindset of fixed measures of hems. I’m curious as to the perception of the fallibility of the King James Bible being shame facedness rather than modesty. If the Latin Root is more of the correct meaning, then Baptists might be on the right track. If the King James translation is…

Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut is a total downer. The reviews have been far from glowing and the subject matter — a struggling single mom, played by Christina Hendricks, living in a bankrupt-like city — even more somber. But during the film’s premiere at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, a fan brought a little love. 

After Lost River was screened, the cast participated in a question and answer session. When Gosling was onstage, a woman got up to seemingly pose an inquiry in regards to the movie but instead popped an entirely different question. 

Heather McKay stood in front of a packed exhibition hall and asked her girlfriend of 11 years, Susan Dion, to marry her. McKay told the audience that after two years of long distance, the pair were finally together and wanted it to be for good this time around. She said: “I want the rest of my life to be with you,” Dion responded with “Yes!” and cue the “awws.” 

McKay, elated and oh so polite, apologized for the interruption and let Gosling as well as co-stars Eva Mendes and Saoirse Ronan get back to the dark subject matter at hand.