Tree casts a delightful spell A fantasy for both children and adults, Ben Gregor’s The Magic Faraway Tree finds the perfect balance of whimsy and post-modernism to make it work for both groups. Based on the novels by Enid Blyton, the film leisurely casts its spell, its story unfolding effortlessly between an idyllic rural landscape […]
Ewan McGregor
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Acts of kindness buoy a harrowing Impossible
Director Juan Antonio Bayona puts us through the wringer with The Impossible, a harrowing film recounting one family’s improbable survival of the 2004 tsunami that occurred in the Indian Ocean. Employing cutting-edge special effects and an unflinching approach toward recreating the severity of the disaster which claimed an estimated 230,000 lives and displaced 1.7 million […]
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Polanski’s political mystery
Director Roman Polanski is in top form with his adaptation of the Robert Harris novel, The Ghost Writer, a riveting political thriller that’s a thinly veiled broadside of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s support of the United States’ Iraqi conflict. Ewan McGregor stars as a ghost writer who’s hired to help former British Prime Minister […]
