Tag: Ewan McGregor

Blu-ray Review: Beauty and the Beast (2017)

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August: Osage County (Blu-ray)

Based on Tracy Letts Pulitzer Prize winning play, August: Osage County is the kind of drama many actors love to do: thick with dialogue, it gives multiple performers a chance to really chew some scenery.  Packed with fighting, crying, drinking,…

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Blu-ray Review: Jack the Giant Slayer

Another in a growing number of films that seek to offer alternate versions of popular fairy tales, Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer reworks Jack the Giant Killer. As is often the case with these films, our hero has a…

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Perfect Sense

Blu-ray Review: Perfect Sense

Part love story, part science fiction, director David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense is a tale of love, loss and fear. As people around the world are experiencing the loss of sensory perception, a pair of lovers appreciates each other as best…

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Velvet Goldmine

Blu-ray Review: Velvet Goldmine

“We set out to change the world,” laments Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor) to New York Herald journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale), “and ended up changing only ourselves.” “What’s wrong with that?” the reporter responds quizzically. “Nothing…if you don’t look at…

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Blu-ray Review: Trainspotting

“I chose not to choose life. I chose to choose something else,” says the film’s narrator and main character, a twenty-something Edinburgh man named Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), near the beginning of Trainspotting. From the start, it’s clear that this…

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Blu-ray Review: The Island

While 2005’s The Island marked director Michael Bay’s first effort without the assistance of producer Jerry Bruckheimer, you’d be hard pressed to know it. Like many of his past films with Bruckheimer–Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and Bad Boys II—The Island delivers…

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The Island Coming to Blu-ray

HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. – Director Michael Bay delivers a mesmerizing look into the not-too-distant future in THE ISLAND, debuting on Blu-ray June 21, 2011 from Paramount Home Entertainment.  Ewan McGregor (The Ghost Writer) and Scarlett Johansson (Iron Man 2) star as…

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Blu-ray Review: Moulin Rouge

20th Century Fox | 2001 | 128 mins. | PG-13 After decades of box office dominance, the movie musical fell largely out of favor. With the exception of a couple of notable Disney productions, many studios seemed to abandon the…

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