Ryan Gosling

Starring an ensemble cast comprising Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara and Michael Fassbender, Song to Song focuses on BV (Gosling) and Faye (Mara), a songwriting couple whose relationship becomes complicated due to music producer Cook…

Anyone familiar with Terence Malick’s recent work will know commercialism is far from high on his agenda when it comes to his filmmaking style of sweeping camera shots and beautiful sprawling landscapes with clean cut lines of high…

Famously reclusive and sparing in his output, Terrence Malick used to be the mercurial auteur prototype. It helped that his small canon proved worthy of all the extravagant praise thrown its way. Then he suddenly stepped the productivity…

The annual mid-March South by Southwest (better known as SXSW) shindig has just about everything going for it. Taking place in hip Austin, it’s perhaps best known as a musical festival, but the film portion has grown in importance as the…

Arriving in UK cinemas less than a week after it swept every gong going at the Golden Globes, it’d be easy get carried away by all the hype surrounding La La Land. After all, this is writer/director Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to the…

In this day and age, it's easy to be cynical and dismiss the idea of following your dreams and live happily ever after. After the phenomenal success of Whiplash, director Damien Chazelle dismisses cynicism to revive the all-singing,…

After a week and a half and hundreds of films, TIFF has come to an end. Taxi drivers can stop complaining about the forced pedestrianisation of King Street, the queue in Tim Hortons near the main venue will return to normal, and Toronto…

Some way in from the start, Emma Stone finds herself in a swanky restaurant dressed to the nines. The talk is boring, full of business deals and superficial pleasantries. Then she hears a familiar tune and it all fades down until only the…

October marks the return of the BFI London Film Festival, which highlights the year’s most anticipated films in venues across the city, including a 780-seat pop-up cinema in Victoria Embankment Gardens. Celebrating its 60th year, the UK's…

Sure, nice guys finish last, but that doesn’t mean they’re not winners. Take Holland March and Jackson Healy (Ryan Gosling & Russell Crowe) for example, the Starsky and Hutch of Shane Black’s sublimely screwy and unashamedly sleazy…