The Ides of March

The Ides of March

There isn’t really too much to the story of The Ides of March, which is very by-the-book political drama.  Essentially the film follows an idealist staff member (Ryan Gosling) of a potential presidential candidate (George Clooney), who is slowly corrupted by all the backroom backstabbing that happens in the political world. The cast of the…

Drive

Drive

Drive is an action/crime/drama that seems to be hearkening back to crime thrillers of the 1980s, with a little of Martin Scorsese‘s Taxi Driver thrown in for good measure. The film stars Ryan Gosling as a nameless stunt driver/mechanic, who moonlights as a getaway driver for robberies.  He takes one such job to help out the husband of his…

Blue Valentine

Blue Valentine

This film made some headlines over how the MPAA gave this film an NC-17 rating for some of the sexual content in the film (which was later successfully overturned to an R).  I won’t delve too much into this issue, since at the end of the day, it has little to do with the film…