Lars and the Real Girl

Director Craig Gillespie and Ryan Gosling will combine their talents once more, and no, not for a Lars and the Real Girl sequel.

Titled The Dallas Buyers Club, the movie follows an inspiring true story. Variety has more:

Dallas Buyers Club is the true story of Ron Woodroof, a tough Texas electrician who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and given six months to live. Frustrated with the lack of available medical options and unwilling to accept a death sentence, Woodroof found a lifeline using alternative drugs and created a lucrative smuggling business that made those drugs available to AIDS patients. Woodroof died in 1992.

If this film ends up with even an inkling of the aching poignancy of Lars and the Real Girl, I am all about it. I can't wait to see Gosling show us more of the dramatic chops we know he has. I anticipate my heart breaking from this film but with this team, I welcome it. You?

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All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue.

Juno
Yes, the day has come. Ladies and gentlemen, Juno is now available to rent or own. Me? I'll own this one because before all the hype and all the Oscar nods (and win), I went to a little movie that warmed my heart and cracked me up, and I knew then that I'd want to take it home and love it forever.

Juno stars Ellen Page, a Minnesota teenager who grows up quickly when she accidentally gets pregnant. The film is just littered with endearing performances from Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons and Jennifer Garner, but some would argue the real star of the film is the snappy script written by Diablo Cody (one of the few screenplay writers to ever become a household name, thanks to this little movie).

The two-disc special edition is loaded with extras for anyone looking to squeeze more goodness out of it. There's audio commentary by director Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, a gag reel, screen tests (can you imagine Michael Cera doing one of these? So cute!), and a couple of featurettes including one titled, "Cast & Crew Jam."

Two more good ones out this week, so read more

Ryan Gosling looked like a hot and vastly improved version of himself at a screening of Lars and the Real Girl in NYC last night. While the mustache is still pretty ridiculous, his handsome somehow shines through. He cozied up to his costars, Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson, who are also excellent in the movie — which I wholeheartedly recommend. Loved it. Gosling seems to have slimmed down quickly since leaving the cast of The Lovely Bones, which makes me think that it can't really have been his bulkiness that cost him the role, right? Even though I'll miss him in that movie, just seeing him all gussied up is such a treat. And no, I'm not going to mention how much I wish Rachel McAdams was on his arm. Damn, I kinda just did anyway, right?

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Just one night after his LA premiere of Lars and the Real Girl, Ryan was showing it off in NYC. I was lenient with Ryan's first red carpet look, but this is kind of unfortunate. Though, golf claps for following through with the unique gray suit trend? I'm going to go ahead and blame jet lag for most of this. I can usually get behind the scruffy bearded look, so hopefully it'll be back to dreamy soon for Ryan. Meeting him on the red carpet was the movie's director Craig Gillespie and co-star Patricia Clarkson along with Amy Sedaris, whose quirkiness fits in perfectly with this movie. I'm especially excited to see the stars of two of my very favorite shows on the red carpet — Katrina Bowden from 30 Rock (back tonight! Yay!) and Connie Britton & Kyle Chandler from Friday Night Lights (back tomorrow! Double yay!).

To see more of the premiere including Lost alum Maggie Grace and all the people above just read more

Ryan Gosling got all spiffed up for the prom LA premiere of Lars and the Real Girl last night. What can I say, the man loves himself a unique gray suit, but sadly (oooor happily) he left his fancy tuxedo shirt at home this time. Love love love Ryan on screen and can't wait to see him in this quirky film, but I do wish that he would bring Rachel on the red carpet with him more often. I guess she's busy hanging out in wedding gowns up in Toronto, but just the hope that the cutest couple ever are still on is good enough. Plus, on Ryan's arm last night was once again his sister, awww, can't help but love such a family man.

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Ryan Gosling boldly wore a denim shirt and then a plaid three piece suit to his Lars and the Real Girl press conference/premiere at the Toronto Film Festival yesterday. Yet, he totally made it work. During the conference, talk turned to the odd subject matter of the film - falling in love with a life sized Real Doll. They joked about how they treated her like a real member of the cast, even respecting her modesty by only changing her clothes in privacy. Love. It. BUT the most important part of was when Ryan said that his girlfriend Rachel McAdams doesn't like it when he leaves the doll around the house. OMG you guys, I love it. I had kind of given up hope that they were secretly still together. Um, major yays.

To see more of Ryan and his cute costars just read more

We may not be getting the crisp fall weather just yet, but we are getting previews for tons of movies opening in the fall. In preparation for this autumn and winter at the theaters, I've broken up the lengthy list of upcoming movies into many small themes for my Fall Movie Preview series. This way, you'll be in the know when the chillier months roll around, bringing a whole new crop of new films. In today's preview, all you need is love — in all its funny and heartbreaking variations.

I Could Never Be Your Woman
I really hope this movie is great, but I have admittedly little faith in it. It stars the gorgeous Michelle Pfeiffer and adorable Paul Rudd, but was supposed to come out around Valentine's Day (over six months ago!) and now it's slated to open November 9. Not a good sign. Pfeiffer plays a 40-year-old divorcee facing the challenges and insecurities associated with getting older and raising a pre-teen daughter (played by Saoirse Ronan, the actress recently cast to play Susie in The Lovely Bones). She meets Adam (Rudd), a 29-year-old spirited guy who apparently teaches her how to loosen up and be a kid again. It looks like it's maybe a step up from The Perfect Man. Maybe. Check out the fairly lame trailer and tell me what you think.

More romantic adventures scheduled for the fall if you read more

Well, after much speculation over exactly how this movie would shape up, the Ryan Gosling movie in which he falls for a doll finally has a trailer. Lars and the Real Girl certainly looks bizarre, but also funnier than I thought it would be.

Gosling's character Lars, a loner-type who seems to have issues with dating real human women, orders a life-size doll off the internet and insists that he is dating her. He tells his friends and family that "Bianca" is a "missionary," which is most likely a reference to the missionary position probably described on the Bianca's packaging. The adorable Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson also star.

This strange romantic indie screens at the Toronto Film Festival in September before opening in limited release October 12. To see the trailer, read more

Ryan Gosling the Mouseketeer is all grown up. By 26, he's already scored an Oscar nomination for Half Nelson and recently had the chance to star opposite Anthony Hopkins in Fracture. Now, he's ready for something completely different. Ryan is set (and excited) to star as a man who falls in love with a life-sized doll in the upcoming film Lars and the Real Girl. Hey, never let it be said he's afraid to take risks. Gosling, had this to say about the role — and the doll:

"They have really realistic ones. You can design them and they feel real," says Gosling, who plays the title character. "[My character] has a delusion. He orders one and he's convinced she's real. He's a hermit. He takes her into the town he lives in, and [the townspeople] play along with him, so they can get to know him and make him feel comfortable. In the process they fall in love with her too."

Evidently they're trying for something in the vein of a Hal Ashy film like Being There or Harold and Maude. Those are big shoes to fill, but if anyone can make us fall for a character in love with a blow-up doll, it's Gosling. I'm definitely excited to see how this one turns out.

And at least there's one thing that's for sure — he's not going to leave Rachel McAdams (if they're even still together) for his costar!

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