Posts Tagged ‘Ewan McGregor’
Top 15 Films of 2022 – Allen’s Picks
2022 proved to be a transition year for the movies. As Covid restrictions lifted and audiences returned to theaters, studios faced the challenge of deciding what films get wide releases while reserving others for streaming platforms. The result was confusion – should a person make…
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Episode 126 – The Fabelmans & Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
For this week’s podcast, we review Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Steven Spielberg‘s semi-auto-biographical film, The Fabelmans. For our streaming homework, we also catch up with David Cronenberg‘s latest sci-fi horror movie, Crimes of the Future. Download the episode here.
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Film Review – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) is a mesmerizing stop motion animated film. No stranger to fantasy and horror, del Toro – along with co-director Mark Gustafson – have taken a timeless story and breathed new life into it. This is not the same Pinocchio of the 1940 Disney…
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Episode 33 – Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey
On this week’s podcast, we review the latest DC Comics adaptation, Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey. We also discuss the historic significance of Parasite‘s best picture win at this year’s Academy Awards, and at the end of the podcast, for our streaming homework, we review…
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Film Review – Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is a spin-off of 2016’s Suicide Squad. I obsessed over anything about Suicide Squad until I saw it. It was a disappointment, to put it mildly. One of the best characters in the film and one…
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Episode 26 – Doctor Sleep
In this episode of the podcast, we bring on actor, comedian, and friend Josh Hurley to help us review the latest Stephen King adaptation, Doctor Sleep. We also discuss what roles he and Keith would want to play in a selection of ensemble films, and…
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Film Review – Doctor Sleep
Nearly 40 years after Stanley Kubrick scarred a nation with his loose interpretation of Stephen King‘s The Shining, director Mike Flanagan picks up the story in an overall pretty good adaptation of King’s own 2013 published sequel, Doctor Sleep.
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Film Review – T2 Trainspotting
“What is choose life?” The question, which is asked to Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), hits him unaware and leaves him thinking for a moment. Renton, an ex-heroine addict, has returned home after twenty years away. He takes his moment and then unleashes a stream-of-conscious, quick…
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