"If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder," Ben Mendelsohn warns Ryan Gosling in the trailers and spots for "The Place Beyond The Pines," and indeed, the twists and turn in Derek Cianfrance's upcoming film sometimes come and go like a storm in the night.
Read More »A traveling motorcycle stunt rider probably isn't the best guy to pin the hopes of a stable family life around, but that's the situation in which Romina (Eva Mendes) finds herself in "The Place Beyond The Pines." Ryan Gosling's Luke has a good heart but a vagabond spirit, and the crushing reality of...
Read More »While the trailers and ads have rightfully focused on the intense drama of "The Place Beyond The Pines," what should also be known about Derek Cianfrance's upcoming film is that it's also quite funny in places. And this latest clip shows a bit of humor being added to what is an otherwise crucial bit...
Read More »He's a traveling stunt rider with no fixed address. She's the woman he sees once or twice a year when he rolls through town. Then there's the small town cop, who's overqualified for the job. Their worlds will collide - - and that's basically all you need to know about Derek Cianfrance's "The Place B...
Read More »The sound you hear is that of motorcycle revving, and the aroma is the exhaust that will spread over generations... Yes, we're being a bit poetic about "The Place Beyond The Pines," director Derek Cianfrance's epic forthcoming film, and we kind of have to be because to talk too much about the movie ...
Read More »It's been a long, dark couple of months at the start of 2013, with not all that much that's been worth seeing, bar a few bright spots like "Side Effects" and "No." But as the days start to get sunnier and warmer (we hope so, at least, or we're going to jump off something tall fairly soon), the prosp...
Read More »After wowing us at TIFF last fall with its “shades of classic Italian melodrama put through the lens of a distinctly American film,” director Derek Cianfrance's “The Place Beyond the Pines” slowly nears closer to its much-anticipated release, and now you can get a look ...
Read More »We may not have gotten a lot of interesting films so far this year, but that will soon change. “The Place Beyond the Pines,” the hotly anticipated film from writer/director Derek Cianfrance, comes out in just a few weeks and some new images and character posters have been posted online t...
Read More »We may be stuck in the midst of the early winter slopfest that the studios are serving up, but help is on the way. One movie that is already on this writer's Best Of 2013 list is Derek Cianfrance's "The Place Beyond The Pines," and as the spring release approaches, a batch of new i...
Read More »The early months of the year are always a little bleak, cinematically speaking, as the last few weeks have demonstrated ("Gangster Squad," "Movie 43," "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" et al). And bright spots over the next few months are fairly sparse too, but we know for sure that there's some good...
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