Results tagged “Ewan McGregor” from Birmingham Mail - Mega Movies

GREAT to see that old Villa fan Tom Hanks back on the silver screen today in Angels & Demons.

Although Hanks' track record proves that he's the best actor of his generation, this is only his third leading-man performance since The Terminal five years ago.

But what's Ewan McGregor doing in there?

He's got one of his silly hair partings again.

And, even though he turned 38 just six weeks ago on March 31, he's far too young to be playing a character who has supposedly temporarily taken over from the Pope after he's snuffed it.

Ewan looks like a schoolboy alongside some of the older guys who are milling around while trying to elect a new pontiff.

No wonder his Irish accent is all over the place.

So where is the Trainspotting star at now?

Well, it's ten years since he got sucked into the three Star Wars prequels as Obi-Wan Kenobi and in my view it was the worst thing he ever did.

Since then he's given us stuff like Big Fish, The Island, Cassandra's Dream, Incendiary and Deception.

Not forgetting the insufferable Down With Love.

Imagine going on a long haul flight and finding Down With Love, Cassandra's Dream and Incendiary all running back to back! You'd be praying for a parachute.

His best performance in the past ten years has undoubtedly been Young Adam, but hardly anyone went to see that!

+ Don't forget to read my Angels & Demons review in tomorrow's Birmingham Mail.

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... YOU'LL BE in for a big surprise.

There's no sign of a teddy bear's picnic with Woody Allen's new movie Cassandra's Dream which has just opened.

You just won't believe how much of a dog's dinner of a film this is, complete with vague connections to a greyhound. And a boat. With a bit of meaningless Greek tragedy thrown in.

The cast includes Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell and Tom Wilkinson all floundering like you've never seen 'em before.

They'll console themselves they weren't being flogged or having fingers chopped off in woodland horror thriller Timber Falls.

LEGENDARY filmmaker Woody Allen has lost the plot.

Either that or he's really, really lost his touch with new movie Cassandra's Dream.

Even if we were to charitably accept that its plot must have looked good on paper to every star who signed on the dotted line, I discovered at a preview screening today that he's still delivered a whopping turkey seven months early.

Until you see it for yourself, you just couldn't believe how bad this is considering the cast includes Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell and Tom Wilkinson.

See for yourself after the 'thriller' goes on general release on Friday, May 23 when I'll be reviewing it in the Birmingham Mail.

Cassandra's Dream will be opening like a limited edition flea circus compared with the mammoth worldwide release of Steven Spieberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

The idea there, of course, is to give those who don't want to watch a blockbuster a more arty alternative.

It's art all right. But probably not in the way that the now 72-year-old Woody intended.