DVD Review: The Impossible

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Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, The Impossible is based on one family’s real-life experience of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Hoping for a relaxing vacation in Thailand, Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor), and their three sons, Lucas (Tom Holland), Thomas (Samuel Joslin), and Simon (Oaklee Pendergast), spend the morning of 26th December relaxing by the pool. But when a tsunami triggered by an Indian Ocean earthquake floods the area, the town and its people are left to face its overwhelming, destructive effects.

Trailer Trash Feature: 6th – 28th August

(Bi-weekly feature written for Lost In The Multiplex)

With the Toronto International Film Festival kicking off in just over a week we’ve been able to see quite a few trailers for some highly anticipated films this week. From an adaptation of a Charles Dickens classic to a comedy about dog napping, we have many great roles to showcase in this feature, including seven brilliantly cast psychopaths, Joseph Gordon-Levitt on a bike, Napoleon Dynamite as a serious lawyer, Vanessa Hudgens pole dancing, and Ted Mosby from How I Met Your Mother seducing the beautiful Elizabeth Olsen. I bet you never expected any of that…

New Poster For Tsunami Drama ‘The Impossible’ Starring Ewan McGregor & Naomi Watts

(Written for HeyUGuys)

A new – Spanish – poster has been released for the upcoming drama based on one family’s experience of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, The Impossible, this week.

From the crew of The Orphanage, including director Juan Antonio Bayona who will be making his English-language debut and scribe Sergio G. Sánchez, the film follows the true account of a family – Henry (Ewan McGregor), Maria (Naomi Watts) and their three sons – who begin their winter vacation in Thailand but who find themselves caught with tens of thousands of strangers in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time.