The Review at the End of the Universe
Obi Wan Kenobi recently completed its run on Disney+ so Kneel Before Pod came out of hiding to discuss it. The conversation covers a bleak galaxy, Darth Vader as a threatening presence and Obi Wan’s laughably poor hiding skills.
Star Wars Day is upon us and Kneel Before Pod completes its journey through the Skywalker Saga by discussing Revenge of the Sith. The conversation covers evil politicians, descending into darkness and Younglings always being a funny word.
Star Wars Day (May the Fourth) has come around again and this year it’s time to talk about Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. We discuss Obi Wan’s teaching methods, inefficient executions and the tenuous hold Republic citizens have on their children. Craig can be found on this very site and over…
Star Wars Day (May the 4th) is upon us once again and Kneel Before Pod continues its annual discussion of the Star Wars movies in release order. This year it’s time to venture into Prequel Country with the 1999 release Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The team discusses how good the word…
An adult Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) is encouraged to recapture his sense of fun and adventure when he reunites with his childhood friend in Marc Forster’s Christopher Robin. The basic structure of this film will be familiar to many people. On the surface it’s the same story as Hook; a film that also features one…
Disney retells the tale as old as time in Bill Condon’s live action adaptation of their animated classic Beauty and the Beast. Everyone surely knows the story by now. A prince is cursed to live out his days as a beast unless he can find true love before the last petal of a rose falls….
Danny Boyle brings the Trainspotting gang back together 20 years later when Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) decides to take a stroll down memory line in T2 Trainspotting. Doing a sequel to a film 21 years on is always going to be an uphill struggle because what worked back then doesn’t necessarily work now. There will…
In 2017 the Edinburgh International Film Festival celebrates its seventieth year, and on a cold clear evening in November, they kicked off their run up to this notable milestone with a Gala Screening of Ewan McGregor’s directorial debut American Pastoral. Having managed to bag myself a ticket, I settled down amongst Edinburgh’s great and good…
After being quiet for a while we seem to be getting a real slew of Ewan McGregor movies of late, and if you like to see him as part of a very strong ensemble cast in a tightly scripted and directed story based on a novel by John le Carré, you might want to take…
When is a biopic not a biopic? The answer comes in the form of Miles Ahead, staring Don Cheadle as the titular lead Miles Davis. This is also Cheadle’s directorial debut, and he further adds feathers to his already impressive hat with story and screenwriting credits, credits which he shares with Steven Baigelman (Feeling Minnesota),…
