Nicolas Winding Refn’s ultraviolent collaboration with Ryan Gosling, Only God Forgives, has taken the top prize at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival. Jury president Hugo Weaving announced the Official Competition winner on the closing night of the fest, declaring it “a visually mesmerizing and disturbing film which polarised our opinions.” Only God Forgives trumped 11 other movies for […]
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Sydney Film Festival – Only God Forgives review
June 16, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo June 16, 2013 If a boy’s best friend truly is his mother, this guy is seriously screwed. In Only God Forgives, Nicolas Winding Refn’s laboriously paced follow-up to Drive, Ryan Gosling plays Julian, a drug-dealer based in Bangkok, seemingly hiding out from his American tiger mother Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas). When his brother Billy is brutally murdered, Crystal comes […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: Only God Forgives
April 4, 2013 0 Comments
The teaser trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s follow-up to Drive, Only God Forgives, has arrived online. The picture also stars Ryan Gosling, though, this time, he’s an intense, softly-spoken MMA fighter as opposed to an intense, softly-spoken stunt driver. Kristin Scott Thomas plays his mysterious mother, who sets him on a collision course with a […]
Continue readingRyan Gosling exits Logan’s Run remake
October 29, 2012 1 Comment
Ryan Gosling chooses not to go to carousel and be renewed as he bows out of the Logan’s Run remake, according to Variety’s Justin Kroll. The long-awaited remake had Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Gosling on board earlier this year, but now a busy workload is believed to be the reason for Gosling’s […]
Continue readingThe driver from Drive may return, just not in Drive 2
October 10, 2012 0 Comments
Drive author James Sallis suggested earlier in the year that a film sequel was being developed based on his own literary follow-up, Driven. Needless to say, everyone began to furiously collate all the French electro they could find for an anticipatory and celebratory iTunes playlist. Director Nicolas Winding Refn has since told The Evening Standard that another Drive movie “is never […]
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