Starring two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts, Golden Globe nominee Ewan McGregor and newcomer Tom Holland. Directed by J.A. Bayona and based on the harrowing real-life experience of one family during the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Danny Boyle's taut 'bad decisions' thriller Shallow Grave gets the Criterion treatment, and above all that means a very nice looking new transfer that really showcases the work of director of photography Brian Tufano better than ever.
This wonderful, emotionally balanced film was criminally ignored during it's brief, extremely limited theatrical run. There's no excuse to miss it on Blu-ray though, as the leads are fantastic and the story is beyond compelling.
What happens when everyone becomes so emotional that they literally lose their senses? And what does a star chef do when people can no longer taste his food? An unexplained pandemic of sense deprivation is the catalyst for director David Mackenzie's provocative, daring and powerful drama of loss and love, Perfect Sense. Starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green as two damaged people who come together to face the global catastrophe.
Really, all there is to know about this going in is that it's a British political satire that uses puppets to tell it's story. Eat your heart out, Matt Stone and Trey Parker!
Supermarionation ...hilarious feature film debut from Scottish brothers Edward and Rory McHenry, with an all-star cast of voices including Ewan McGregor, Alan Cumming, Dominic West, Rosamund Pike, Tom Wilkinson), Timothy Spall, and Richard E. Grant, among others.
Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson star as Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta, residents of a confined indoor community created after ongoing abuse of the Earth rendered most of the planet uninhabitable. One of the only places in the outside world still capable of sustaining life is an idyllic island where citizens are chosen to live through a lottery. Or at least that's what everyone believes.
