Tag: Ewan McGregor
Doctor Sleep | Review
No Rest for the Wicked: Flanagan Shines with Sprawling King Sequel
Director Mike Flanagan achieves the impossible with Doctor Sleep, a cohesive and effective sequel...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Drake Doremus’ Zoe
We've now arrived to our 75 prediction destination with this final item. A Sundance personality who over time, has developed his own cult following in...
Beauty and the Beast | Review
The Beast Must Die: Condon’s Expensive Rehash is Fairy Tale Facsimile
For a film with a budget of three hundred million claiming to be the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Danny Boyle’s T2: Trainspotting
Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose this sequel as the special screening at Sundance and all will be forgiven for when...
Last Days in the Desert | DVD Review
Ewan McGregor stars as both Jesus and the devil in Rodrigo Garcia’s seventh narrative feature, Last Days in the Desert, which premiered at the...
Last Days in the Desert | Review
Just By Looking At It: Garcia’s Hollowed Jesus Flick
At one time an adept purveyor of what could loosely be termed the modernized ‘women’s picture’...
Miles Ahead | Review
Kinetic & Spirited: Debut Heavily Reliant on Cheadle’s Perf
His raspy voice precedes, commanding the dark screen. Front and center, the unruly Don Cheadle channels the...
The Pillow Book | Blu-ray Review
Though typical of Peter Greenaway’s predilection for depictions of provocative desires laid out over sometimes subversive subtexts, his 1996 title The Pillow Book feels demure...
Son of a Gun | Review
Gunsmoke: Avery’s Able-bodied Debut Dulled by Familiar Tropes
The less familiar you are with the dramatic crime genre, perhaps the more engaged you’ll be with...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #126. Gavin O’Connor’s Jane Got a Gun
Jane Got a Gun
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Writers: Brian Duffield, Anthony Tambakis
Producer: Chris Coen, Terry Dougas, Aleen Keshishian, Scott LaStaiti, Mary Regency Boies, Natalie Portman, Zack...
August: Osage County | Review
Suffer the Children: Wells' Adaptation Enjoyable Camp, Hinges on Grandiose Performances
When something sounds too good to be true, it often is, and while John...
