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Dinner theatre – August: Osage County review

By Simon Miraudo December 17, 2013 Tracy Letts is doing the Lord’s work. Or is it the Devil’s? (Which one is responsible for all the fun stuff again?) He adapts his Pulitzer Prize winning play, August: Osage County, for the big screen, just in time for the holidays, administering the perfect antidote for all the […]

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Poster Debut: August: Osage County

The poster for the John Wells directed adaptation of August: Osage County has been released, highlighting how star studded its cast is. The film, adapted from Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts as mother and daughter alongside Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette […]

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Impossible is nothing – The Impossible review

The Impossible – Starring Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, and Tom Holland. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. The memory of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami may have already faded for many, but Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Impossible is sure to revive some of the horror as it vividly reconstructs the destruction […]

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Trailer Debut: Jack the Giant Slayer

The trailer for Bryan Singer’s long-gestating Jack the Giant Slayer has arrived, and the film looks as if it’s cut from the same cloth as all those other recent fairy-tale reinterpretations. A bit of a different take on the legendary fable, it stars Nicholas Hoult as a simple farm boy who joins the King’s army in their battle […]

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Ewan McGregor Australia-bound for Son of a Gun

Ewan McGregor has been cast in the upcoming West Australian production Son of a Gun, Inside Film reports. The Scot will head to WA in early 2013 for the shoot. Writer-director Julius Avery makes his feature debut with the flick, which tells of a master thief who recruits a protégé for a gold heist. It does not […]

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Tinker tailor Soderbergh spy – Haywire review

Haywire – Starring Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, and Channing Tatum. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated M. By Richard Haridy. Haywire arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia July 25, 2012. Mixed martial artist Gina Carano stars in Steven Soderbergh‘s Haywire; an action film swathed in such a haze of cold detachment it’s positively glacial. From Solaris […]

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Got the touch – Perfect Sense review

Perfect Sense – Starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green. Directed by David Mackenzie. Rated MA. By Hilary Simmons. In David Mackenzie‘s Perfect Sense, a selfish chain-smoking chef falls in love with a contemptuous, spiteful scientist. Both prefer systematic patterns to sensory perception, which they see as simply the source of physical satisfaction and financial security. In […]

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Ready to start – Beginners review

Beginners – Starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent. Directed by Mike Mills. Rated M. Originally published August 1, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. One of the great cosmic practical jokes is humanity’s enduring inability to capture, well, humanity on screen, which is probably why we make so many films about fighting robots instead. It’s the great desire of an artist; to depict human […]

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Ewan McGregor cast in Noah Baumbach’s The Corrections

Ewan McGregor will join Chris Cooper and Dianne Wiest in Noah Baumbach‘s HBO pilot The Corrections. It was announced in September that Baumbach and producer Scott Rudin would bring Jonathan Franzen’s acclaimed tome to the small screen as a HBO series. The book tells the story of the repressed Lambert family; parents Alfred (Cooper) and […]

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Ready to start – Beginners review

Beginners – Starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent. Directed by Mike Mills. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Beginners played the Melbourne International Film Festival. It arrives in Australian cinemas August 25, 2011. One of the great cosmic practical jokes is humanity’s enduring inability to capture, well, humanity on screen, which is probably why […]

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Goat save us – The Men Who Stare At Goats review

The Men Who Stare at Goats – Starring Ewan McGregor, George Clooney and Jeff Bridges. Directed by Grant Heslov. Rated M. Originally published March 3, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. I’ve spoken previously of the critic-blinding powers of George Clooney’s charm. No matter the quality of the film, no matter the quality of his performance – […]

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Goat save us! – The Men Who Stare at Goats review

The Men Who Stare at Goats – Starring Ewan McGregor, George Clooney and Jeff Bridges. Directed by Grant Heslov. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. I’ve spoken previously of the critic-blinding powers of George Clooney’s charm. No matter the quality of the film, no matter the quality of his performance – once he unveils his coy […]

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Stare at goats! Kill the goats! The Men Who Stare At Goats trailer debut!

source: traileraddict.com If you ever wondered if you could kill a goat with your mind, then The Men Who Stare At Goats has the answer. The trailer for the Grant Heslov-directed feature film has landed and it tells a story too strange NOT to be true. Ewan McGregor stars as Bob Wilton, a reporter who […]

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Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor are in love!

source: traileraddict.com Today we bring you clips from the highly anticipated Sundance hit I Love You, Phillip Morris starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Jim Carrey stars as Steven Jay Russell, a church going family man who realises he is gay after a near-death experience. He leaves his wife and child to become a con […]

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