A terrific performance by Ryan Gosling is the chief but hardly sole reason to embrace "Half Nelson." Pic avoids melodrama in the potentially hyperbolic tale of a white Brooklyn middle-school teacher ...

Movies about unlikely buddies have inspired writer and director Ryan Fleck, whose latest film, Half Nelson, chronicles the relationship between an inner-city junior-high student and her inspiring -- ...

The film is the story of a Brooklyn, NY public school teacher dealing with addiction (played by Ryan Gosling), who forms an unexpected friendship with one of his troubled students (played by Shareeka ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Ryan Gosling drips out his words like a shower head in an old apartment building with dismal water pressure. He's the type to start a sentence three different ways and interrupt its progress with a ...