I suppose there is some chance that a person might just be opposed to anything that presents itself as a political thriller/drama, but barring a genre-bias, I don't suppose people need a lot of convincing beyond learning the cast of The Ides of March. George Clooney is certainly enough of a draw, and Ryan Gosling picks up pretty well where he leaves off. Of course, I was actually referring to … [Read more...]
It's a brave collective of souls that takes on the challenge (or perhaps folly) of putting together a film based on the end of a life of someone who wrote a book no one actually reads, and solidly held a view no one wants to hear. In order to dodge some of the pitfalls of such a crazy undertaking, The Last Station is actually not so much a story about Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), but is … [Read more...]
