Tag: Ewan McGregor
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Speed Is Expensive review – engaging homage to motorcycle legend Philip Vincent
Ewan McGregor narrates an orderly and perhaps too polite profile of the engineer and inventor behind some of the world’s finest motorbikesSpeed is expensive, as Ewan McGregor did not say in Trainspotting. The line was uttered by Philip Vincent, a Harrow-educated motorbike designer who made some of the world’s fastest – and priciest – motorbikes…
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Why Do We See Force Ghosts in Star Wars?
In Star Wars, a rare few Force-sensitive beings were able to retain their soul and consciousness after death and become what are known as Force Ghosts. In the final scenes of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Master Yoda (Frank Oz) alludes to how Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) will come to achieve…
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George Lucas Took A Lax Approach To Continuity In Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith
One might notice little odd camera tricks and visual continuity errors throughout all the “Star Wars” movies if one looks closely enough. For instance, there is a scene in George Lucas’ “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” wherein Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) is about to fight the evil robotic lizard General Grievous…
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‘Mother, Couch’s Director Spills the Tea on How He Scored His Dream Cast
Starring Ewan McGregor and The Exorcist’s Ellen Burstyn, Mother, Couch marks writer-director Niclas Larsson’s debut feature film, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. While there promoting the film, Larsson stopped by Collider’s studio at the Cinema Center by Marbl to speak with Editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub about this unexpected journey with an unbelievable…
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George Lucas Was Almost Sued by a World-Famous University
When Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones first hit theaters back in May 2002, fans were eager to see what George Lucas would do with his second installment in the prequel trilogy. Although reviews were ultimately lukewarm, it was exciting to see Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) finally…
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Mother, Couch! review – a first-rate cast gets lost in a second-rate muddle
Excellent performances from Ewan McGregor, Ellen Burstyn, Rhys Ifans and Lara Flynn Boyle are wasted on a baffling, surreal family indieHeads will be left thoroughly scratched by this rather bewildering curio, a rambling yet not entirely ineffectual comedy-drama about a fractured family forced together by unusual circumstance, starting out somewhat of this world before falling…
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Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Younger Darth Vader Required A Complete Costume Upgrade
Lucasfilm’s “Obi-Wan Kenobi” series was largely forgotten as soon as it aired, and not without reason. Although the show was a nostalgia feast for fans of the prequels and it also gave us a fantastic Leia story (one of the best in the entire franchise), it felt disappointingly derivative. For one, its climactic final battle…
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First ‘Mother, Couch’ Image: Ewan McGregor and Rhys Ifans Are Baffled
Ewan McGregor returns to the big screen in the upcoming film Mother, Couch, the feature-length directorial debut of Niclas Larsson, also starring Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn and Taylor Russell. Russell recently garnered much praise for her performance in Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, as well as in Trey Edward Shults’ 2019 feature Waves. The upcoming…
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Charades, UTA Board ‘Mother, Couch,’ With Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor (Exclusive)
Charades and UTA Independent Film Group have boarded “Mother, Couch,” the high-profile feature debut of Niclas Larsson, which has just dropped its first-look image, shared in exclusivity with Variety.An all-star cast is led by Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor, Ellen Burstyn, Rhys Ifans, Lara Flynn Boyle and F. Murray Abraham and now Lake Bell.Charades will handle…
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Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor Title ‘Mother, Couch!’ to Bow at San Sebastian’s New Directors Sidebar
Starring “Bones and All’s” Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor and Ellen Burstyn, “Mother, Couch!” the feature debut of Sweden’s Niclas Larsson, features in a currently 11-title lineup of San Sebastian’s 2023 New Directors section, the most important sidebar at the highest-profile movie event in the Spanish-speaking world.Notable in Trey Edward Shults’ raved-reviewed debut “Waves,” Russell stars…