When a mother's courage defies tyranny, hope is reborn.

The 32-year-old Canadian actor was unable to attend the premiere Wednesday of director Nicolas Winding Refn's film "Only God Forgives ... situation," said Refn. "One thing is being an actor.

He left EW in 2014. The trouble is, Only God Forgives doesn’t have a script so much as it has a body count. Its characters, even the one played by Gosling (his name is Julian), don’t pretend ...