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Leaving soon: ‘Velvet Goldmine’ – David Bowie meets ‘Citizen Kane’ on MUBI

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, MUBI, music, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jonathan Rhys-Myers plays a not-so-thinly veiled version of Bowie in Todd Haynes’ fictonalized take on the Glam rock era.

Leaving soon: ‘Haywire’ – bad-ass action on Hulu and MUBI

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, MUBI, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 06/24/2023 Sean Axmaker

Steven Soderbergh builds this collision of drive-in assassin action movie and sleek art-house conspiracy thriller around the talents of MMA fighter Gina Carano.

Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer are ‘Beginners’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, American Independent Cinema, BAFTA winner, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/16/2021 Sean Axmaker

The semi-autobiographical film from Mike Mills celebrates new beginnings when a 75-year-old widower comes out of the closet and inspires his son to follow his own heart.

Ewan McGregor is 'The Ghost Writer' in Roman Polanski's superb thriller.

Last chance: Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghost Writer’ on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Last chance, Mystery, Politics, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/22/2021 Sean Axmaker

Ewan McGregor is The Ghost Writer (2010), a scribe-for-hire in the celebrity autobiography business who is contracted to rewrite the dry memoirs of a former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan), in the smart, gripping, subtly Hitchcockian thriller from director Roman Polanski and author Robert Harris. The writer has no other name in the film—he introduces […]

Ewan McGregor stars as Jesus in Rodrigo García's 'Last Days in the Desert'

‘Last Days in the Desert’ free on Hoopla

!Featured, DVD, Easter, Free, Hoopla, religion, SVOD 04/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

I am not religious but I love stories of The Christ. I don’t mean Ben-Hur (though I do love both the original silent and Charlton Heston versions of the film) but films like Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, all very […]

Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris in 'Our Kind of Traitor,' based on the John le Carré novel

‘Our Kind of Traitor’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, spies and espionage, suspense, SVOD 12/13/2020 Sean Axmaker

Our Kind of Traitor (2016), based on the 2010 novel by John le Carré, drops a civilian couple in the midst of international intrigue involving Russian mobsters and British Intelligence. Ewan McGregor is a professor of poetics trying to salvage a petrified romance on a vacation trip in Morocco with his girlfriend Gail (Naomie Harris), […]