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JAMES MCAVOY

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 10, 2017
Opinions aren't split on Shyamalan's comeback
I've always had a soft spot for M. Night Shyamalan, even despite the fact that he has made a total of two truly successful films — "The Sixth Sense" (1999) and "Unbreakable" (2000) — over the course of his over-20-year career. The rest of his work has ranged from mildly disappointing to somewhat enraging — "The Last Airbender," anyone?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 11, 2015
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: 'a compelling and ambitious five-hour love story'
'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" is a sprawling, three-part love story opening on Valentine's Day that wraps itself around the senses like a thick curtain. Director Ned Benson is trying to do something radically different as he takes us through a single love story told from three different perspectives: hers ("Her"), his ("Him") and the combined "Them." That's a total of nearly five hours in the company of New York couple Eleanor (Jessica Chastain) and Conor (James McAvoy), who meet, fall in love and break up, but whose lives and fates remain inexorably intertwined.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 14, 2013
Scottish police corruption has never been so fun
Oftentimes authors whose books are adapted into movies are left to sit at home and simmer as directors make the rounds saying how their "reimagining" of the work was necessary to make it a better cinematic experience, blah, blah, blah, while every fan of the novel knows exactly how it was butchered.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 27, 2013
'There will be people who walk out of the cinema, I'm sure'
In a drab building in central Scotland, one afternoon in the armpit of winter, an actor who looks a lot like nice-guy James McAvoy is persuading a room full of blokes to — I'm paraphrasing here — Xerox their cocks.

Longform

High-end tourism is becoming more about the kinds of experiences that Japan's lesser-known places can provide.
Can Japan lure the jet-set class off the beaten path?