Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Niclas Larsson
Starring: Ellen Burstyn | Ewan McGregor | Lara Flynn Boyle | Rhys Ifans | Taylor Russell
Diane says: “Mother (Ellen Burstyn) has plunked herself down on a couch in a furniture store and refuses to get up. Her youngest son David (Ewan McGregor) is torn between tending to his mother and trying to get to his daughter’s birthday
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Director: Rodrigo García
Starring: Ethan Hawke | Ewan McGregor | Jalyn Baiden | Laura Linda Bradley | Todd Louiso
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cathy Yan
Starring: Ali Wong | Chris Messina | Ella Jay Basco | Ewan McGregor | Jurnee Smollett | Margot Robbie | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Rosie Perez
Michael says: “Big, dumb, super-hero action film? Check! Big-budget blockbuster written and directed by a couple of women, starring four kick-ass ladies as the costumed protagonists? What, what? Yeah, you got the right. Borrowing loosely from a DC Comic made famous by
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Director: Jimmy Giannopoulos
Starring: Emory Cohen | Ewan McGregor | Jeremy Allen White | Lorraine Bracco | Shiloh Fernandez | Val Kilmer | Vincent Pastore | William Fichtner
By Michael Colford
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor | Ewen Bremner | Jonny Lee Miller | Kelly Macdonald | Kevin McKidd | Robert Carlyle
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mike Mills
Starring: Christopher Plummer | Ewan McGregor | Goran Visnjic | Kai Lennox | Mélanie Laurent
Chris says: “BEGINNERS puts a novel twist on the coming out narrative: this time, it’s the father, 75-year-old Hal (Christopher Plummer) who tells his son Oliver (Ewan McGregor) that he’s gay. Neither played for farce nor melodrama, the relatively painless
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Glenn Ficarra | John Requa
Starring: Antoni Corone | Brennan Brown | Ewan McGregor | Jim Carrey | Leslie Mann | Rodrigo Santoro
Jason says: “I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS opens with a playful variant on the standard disclaimer, something along the lines of ‘This all happened. It really did!’ It’s the sort of movie that might get dismissed as ridiculous or improbable
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Ewan McGregor | James Belushi | John Bernthal | Kim Cattral | Olivia Williams | Pierce Brosnan
Thom says: “Polanski, perhaps because of his continuing legal problems, is not the most prolific of world-class directors, but I’ve still managed to see 17 of his films. I loved his early oeuvre of KNIFE IN THE WATER, REPULSION, &
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Colin Farrell | Ewan McGregor | Hayley Atwell | Peter-Hugo Daly | Philip Davis | Sally Hawkins | Tom Wilkinson
Jason says: “Woody Allen is a bitter old man, and has been for a while. As a young man, he looked at the world around him and laughed at the absurdity, but for the past decade or two his movies
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Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: David Hyde Pierce | Ewan McGregor | Renée Zellweger | Sarah Paulson
Peg says: “In what might have been a suave, swinging homage to the Rock Hudson/Doris Day cat-and-mouse romances of the 1960s, director Peyton Reed (BRING IT ON) serves up a pastel-colored ice-cream soda of a movie: sweet and bubbly at
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