Tag Archives: Ewan McGregor

Who won Perfect Sense on DVD and the cinema poster signed by Ewan McGregor?

To celebrate the release of Ewan McGregor and Eva Green’s apocalyptic sci-fi fable, we had a cinema poster signed by Ewan McGregor, plus a copy of Perfect Sense on DVD. Out of our office competition hat we picked a winner, … Continue reading

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Win Perfect Sense on DVD and a poster signed by Ewan McGregor

OK, it’s January and it’s all a bit dismal but at the end of this month Perfect Sense is released on DVD. If Ewan McGregor and Eva Green can manage to find love as the world is crashing down around … Continue reading

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DVD review | Perfect Sense – Global disaster fare on a shoestring budget? Perfect nonsense more like!

What would happen to humanity if our senses started packing in, one by one? Would society inevitably break down? Would love survive? Those are the questions facing Ewan McGregor’s cocky Glasgow chef and Eva Green’s rueful epidemiologist in David Mackenzie’s … Continue reading

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Film review | Haywire – Gina Carano punches above her weight in Soderbergh’s cracking thriller

Betrayed by her bosses, a freelance black-ops agent goes on the run in Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, a taut action thriller that is as briskly efficient and muscular as its heroine. Played by mixed martial artist Gina Carano, lean, mean ex-Marine … Continue reading

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DVD review | Beginners – Mourning Becomes McGregor: Ewan shines as a son grieving his gay dad

By turns playful and funny, tender and poignant, the comedy-drama Beginners is a surprisingly uplifting film about mourning. Inspired by writer-director Mike Mills’s own life, the story revolves around the relationship between Ewan McGregor’s commitment-shy graphic designer Oliver and his … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Dazzling dénouement… The blockbusting fantasy franchise comes to an end as Harry has a final face-off with his nemesis, Lord Voldemort, as the forces of good at Hogwarts battle against the sinister … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Dazzling dénouement… The blockbusting fantasy franchise comes to an end as Harry has a final face-off with his nemesis, Lord Voldemort, as the forces of good at Hogwarts battle against the sinister … Continue reading

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Edinburgh Film Festival opens in upheaval

Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle are kicking off the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival with their Irish crime caper The Guard. But this once world renowned showcase for indie filmmakers appears to be in dire need of a real-life guardian … Continue reading

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Moulin Rouge – Baz Luhrmann pulls back the red curtain for a final flourish

Baz Luhrmann had already pulled off a pair of unlikely feats with the first two films in his Red Curtain trilogy. Who would have thought a fairytale romance set in the world of ballroom dancing and a recklessly anachronistic Shakespeare … Continue reading

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – on set at the Blue Fin Building on London’s South Bank

We Movie Talkers are used to having film crews taking over our headquarters from time to time – almost exactly a year ago, Woody Allen came to the Blue Fin Building to film some of You Will Meet a Tall … Continue reading

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