THE DOUBLE FEATURE

Deeper Into Movies’ Steven Hanley pairs recent and past masterpieces for the perfect double bill. @deepermovies

The Gray Man (2022) and Blue Valentine (2010)

This week we celebrate the return of Ryan Gosling, who has been missing from our screens for four years, but more visible in the past couple of weeks showing some seriously neon Ken get-up in his Barbie movie pap shots. This week he is back with cat and mouse spy/action blockbuster The Gray Man . Gosling plays a CIA mercenary who accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, igniting a global hunt with him as the target. Cue psychopathic pursuer Chris Evans… Pair this with probably Gosling’s best movie to date: Blue Valentine. Director Derek Cianfrance, one of our great realists, put everything on the table for his first foray into the mainstream — a turbulent romance starring Gosling and Michelle Williams. The story jumps back and forth between their vibrant beginnings and the dark, damp corners of a marriage on the verge of collapse. Hopefully the Barbie movie will hold the same emotional gravitas.