Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut Lost River opened to boos (and even some jeers) at the Cannes Film Festival, and now distributor Warner Bros is reportedly looking for an indie studio to dump the flick on. According to Deadline, WB has reached out to some speciality distributors about having them acquire and release the David Lynch-inspired […]
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Ryan Gosling and Zac Efron rumoured for Star Wars Episode VII
July 25, 2013 
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Take this with a pinch of midichlorians. Latino Review – who are occasionally on the money when it comes to casting scoops – suggest Disney has met with both Zac Efron and Ryan Gosling for parts in Star Wars Episode VII. Though they have no info on which character Efron went in for, they insist […]
Continue readingOnly God Forgives wins top prize at Sydney Film Festival
June 17, 2013 0 Comments
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 […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival – Only God Forgives review
June 16, 2013 0 Comments
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 readingPlace off – The Place Beyond the Pines review
May 23, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo May 23, 2013 John Mayer one cautioned the fathers of the world to be good to their daughters. But what of their wayward sons? What of them, John?! Writer-director Derek Cianfrance steps in to answer that question with The Place Beyond the Pines, his follow up the world’s worst date flick, Blue […]
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 readingMobster mash – Gangster Squad review
January 9, 2013 0 Comments
Gangster Squad – Starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, and Sean Penn. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Fledgling director Ruben Fleischer must have thought he was living in a dream on the first day of shooting Gangster Squad, like an Ohio girl with big eyes and bigger dreams stepping off the bus […]
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 […]
Continue readingDrive sequel in the works?
June 5, 2012 0 Comments
File this one under, ‘probably not.’ Still, it’s fun to imagine! James Sallis, author of the novel upon which Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Drive was based, has written a sequel entitled Driven. Speaking with The Independent, Sallis claims his follow-up might indeed be headed to the big screen, claiming “they” (Refn? Star Ryan Gosling? Random producers?) “love the book.” Driven takes place seven […]
Continue readingNicolas Winding Refn takes on The Killing Game
June 1, 2012 0 Comments
Drive and Pusher director Nicolas Winding Refn might direct an adaptation of the graphic novel Button Man: The Killing Game for DreamWorks. According to Deadline, the Danish filmmaker is in talks with the studio to bring John Wagner and Arthur Ranson’s tale to the big screen. The Killing Game concerns assassin Harry Exton, who is hired by a millionaire to compete against […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Gangster Squad
May 10, 2012 0 Comments
The trailer for Ruben Fleischer‘s Gangster Squad, starring Sean Penn as mob boss Mickey Cohen and Josh Brolin as the cop tasked with taking him down, has arrived online. Joining Brolin in the hunt for Penn is Ryan Gosling, Giovanni Ribisi, and Anthony Mackie. Emma Stone plays Cohen’s moll, and winds up in bed with her Crazy, Stupid, Love co-star Gosling (again!). Fleischer is […]
Continue readingInterview: Albert Brooks (Drive)
March 12, 2012 0 Comments
Interview: Albert Brooks (Drive). By Simon Miraudo. Albert Brooks’ chilling performance in Drive was one of the breakout turns of last year; not bad for an Oscar-nominated actor-writer-director with a career that spans four decades. Although we know him best from his witty supporting performances in Broadcast News, Taxi Driver and Out of Sight, his directorial efforts Defending […]
Continue readingInterview: Bryan Cranston (Drive, Breaking Bad)
March 9, 2012 0 Comments
Interview: Bryan Cranston (Drive, Breaking Bad). By Simon Miraudo. Bryan Cranston is enjoying something of a career renaissance, thanks to his iconic turn in TV’s Breaking Bad (it may be a little early to describe his performance as ‘iconic’, but hey, we’re calling it). As chemistry-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White, Cranston has earned three consecutive Emmys as […]
Continue readingThe 10 best male performances of 2011
December 27, 2011 0 Comments
The 10 best male performances of 2011. By Simon Miraudo. It’s the final week of 2011, so we’re sharing with you, once again, our end-of-year lists. This was originally published on December 8 2011. Acting! It’s perhaps the most subjective craft in the entire moviemaking process. What better way to celebrate its unquantifiable nature than by […]
Continue readingThe 10 best male performances of 2011
December 8, 2011 1 Comment
The 10 best male performances of 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Acting! It’s perhaps the most subjective craft in the entire moviemaking process. What better way to celebrate its unquantifiable nature than by ranking our favourite performances of the year? Look past the inherent ridiculousness of comparing dudes who play vicious murderers with those dressed in […]
Continue readingVoter beware – The Ides of March review
November 23, 2011 0 Comments
The Ides of March – Starring Ryan Gosling, George Clooney and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Directed by George Clooney. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Sometimes, it’s just nice to see a classic tale told well. George Clooney steps behind the camera once again for The Ides of March, an impressive political fable about ‘the line’ and the extent to […]
Continue readingTerrence Malick set to become super-prolific; shooting two films in 2012
November 2, 2011 0 Comments
Though considered one of the all-time great filmmakers, Terrence Malick has long been joked about for the glacial speed with which he produces movies. As of the release of The Tree of Life back in June, he had directed only five films over the course of 38 years. Well, it looks as if Malick is about […]
Continue readingFirst look at Gosling and Cooper in The Place Beyond the Pines
November 1, 2011 0 Comments
The first official images of Bradley Cooper and a bleached blonde Ryan Gosling in Derek Cianfrance‘s crime thriller The Place Beyond the Pines have made their way online. Gosling – reuniting with his Blue Valentine director – plays a motorcyclist and criminal on the run from an inexperienced cop (Cooper). The images come courtesy of […]
Continue readingInterview: Bryan Cranston (Drive, Breaking Bad)
October 27, 2011 0 Comments
Interview: Bryan Cranston (Drive, Breaking Bad). By Simon Miraudo. Bryan Cranston is enjoying something of a career renaissance, thanks to his iconic turn in TV’s Breaking Bad (it may be a little early to describe his performance as ‘iconic’, but hey, we’re calling it). As chemistry-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White, Cranston has earned three consecutive Emmys as […]
Continue readingInterview: Albert Brooks (Drive)
October 25, 2011 0 Comments
Interview: Albert Brooks (Drive). By Simon Miraudo. Albert Brooks’ chilling performance in Drive is one of the breakout turns of the year; not bad for an Oscar-nominated actor-writer-director with a career that spans four decades. Although we know him best from his witty supporting performances in Broadcast News, Taxi Driver and Out of Sight, his directorial efforts […]
Continue readingRuns like a dream – Drive review
October 25, 2011 0 Comments
Drive – Starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and Albert Brooks. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Rated MA. Originally published August 7, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. This review was first run during the Melbourne International Film Festival. Drive opens in Australian cinemas October 27, 2011. The best word to describe Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive – based on James Sallis’ […]
Continue readingDrive inspires man to throw hot-dog at Tiger Woods
October 14, 2011 0 Comments
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive has been responsible for some very weird news stories this week. The man who throw a hot-dog at Tiger Woods at a South Bay golf course on Tuesday has revealed he was motivated by Ryan Gosling‘s character in the film. Sausage-launcher Brandon Kelly revealed his bizarre motivations to The Press Democrat: […]
Continue readingWoman sues over misleading Drive trailer
October 10, 2011 7 Comments
Have you ever watched a movie and thought, ‘this is nothing like the trailer promised!’? Then did you quickly get over it and carry on living your life? Not Michigan woman Sarah Deming! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Deming has filed a lawsuit against distributor Film District over their “misleading” trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s […]
Continue readingWhat’s crazy got to do with it? – Crazy Stupid Love review
September 30, 2011 1 Comment
Crazy Stupid Love – Starring Steve Carell, Julianne Moore and Ryan Gosling. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Crazy Stupid Love (or, in its official and confusingly punctuated form: Crazy, Stupid, Love.) often feels like the American version of Love Actually (or should that be Love, Actually; this is […]
Continue readingPoster and Trailer Debut: Drive
August 15, 2011 0 Comments
Start your engines Gosling fans. A new poster and trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s high octane drama Drive have been released. Slashfilm wisely points out the possibility of overhyping this punchy film – which we caught at the Melbourne International Film Festival – but it deserves all of the praise being heaped on it. Drive […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Ides of March
July 28, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for George Clooney‘s highly anticipated new drama (and dare we say it, Best Picture Oscar contender) The Ides of March has debuted online. Based on Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North, The Ides of March stars Ryan Gosling as Stephen, the man behind the next president of the United States (played by Clooney). As Stephen navigates an […]
Continue readingBe mine – Blue Valentine review
June 21, 2011 2 Comments
Blue Valentine – Starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Directed by Derek Cianfrance. Rated MA. Originally published December 22, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. The mark of a truly great romantic drama is one which inspires its viewers to re-evaluate their life. Yep, it’s a somewhat unreasonably high bar for films to reach, but it’s what […]
Continue readingRyan Gosling in Drive is fast(er) and furious(er)
May 9, 2011 0 Comments
Back in January we named Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Drive the “16th most exciting film of 2011” based on its stellar cast alone. Now, having seen the first bit of footage from the picture, we’ll admit that we probably underestimated its potential awesomeness. Drive stars Gosling as a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for […]
Continue readingArmie Hammer to star as The Lone Ranger opposite Johnny Depp?
April 28, 2011 0 Comments
Armie Hammer might jump into the saddle for Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger. According to Deadline, The Social Network star is in early talks to play the eponymous serial hero. Last week it seemed that Ryan Gosling was a shoe-in to star as TLR, opposite Johnny Depp’s Tonto. His reps later revealed that Gosling’s schedule […]
Continue readingRyan Gosling WON’T be The Lone Ranger
April 19, 2011 0 Comments
Remember how yesterday we mentioned that Ryan Gosling was in talks to star as The Lone Ranger opposite Johnny Depp‘s Tonto in Gore Verbinski‘s upcoming adaptation of the serial hero? Well, never mind. Gosling’s rep told Entertainment Weekly that he will not star as The Lone Ranger (which was suspected, as his dance card looked […]
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