Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 16, 2014; Digital Release Date: Dec. 2, 2014
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $34.99
Studio: Sony
Emma Stone and Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Emma Stone (Easy A) star in the 2014 romantic comedy Magic in the Moonlight is the 44th feature film—44th!!!—written and directed by Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine).
Acclaimed magician Stanley Crawford (Firth), has dazzled audiences across Europe with feats of supernatural amazement, but when it comes to explaining the inexplicable, Stanley is a dedicated skeptic. Enter Sophie Baker (Stone), psychic, soothsayer, and stunning seductress. As Stanley and Sophie embark on misadventures up and down the French Riviera, will they discover proof of a world beyond the laws of physics or have they fallen under the sway of a more earthly chemistry?
Also featuring Marcia Gay Harden (A Cat in Paris), Hamish Linklater (Lola Versus), and Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom...
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $34.99
Studio: Sony
Emma Stone and Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Emma Stone (Easy A) star in the 2014 romantic comedy Magic in the Moonlight is the 44th feature film—44th!!!—written and directed by Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine).
Acclaimed magician Stanley Crawford (Firth), has dazzled audiences across Europe with feats of supernatural amazement, but when it comes to explaining the inexplicable, Stanley is a dedicated skeptic. Enter Sophie Baker (Stone), psychic, soothsayer, and stunning seductress. As Stanley and Sophie embark on misadventures up and down the French Riviera, will they discover proof of a world beyond the laws of physics or have they fallen under the sway of a more earthly chemistry?
Also featuring Marcia Gay Harden (A Cat in Paris), Hamish Linklater (Lola Versus), and Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom...
- 9/30/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Woody Allen’s latest offering is rather a perplexing beast. Packed to bursting point with talent, played out against an exquisite French Riviera backdrop and benefitting from a witty story, it ought to be fabulous. But it isn’t. Instead Magic In The Moonlight – the story of a skeptical magician and an artful clairvoyant – is something of a conjuring act itself. From an amiable muddle of misdirection, Agatha Christie adaptation aesthetic, lopsided performances and grand affectations, the veteran director still somehow extracts a dazzling ending which warrants applause.
World renowned conjuror Wei Ling Soo is better known to his very few friends as Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth) – an opinionated Englishman with a tangible disdain for the weak, gullible and “mentally defective”. Flattered by the extravagant compliments of lifelong friend and fellow illusionist Howard (Simon McBurney) – and abandoning plans to holiday with his pragmatic fiancée Olivia – Stanley agrees to a trip...
World renowned conjuror Wei Ling Soo is better known to his very few friends as Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth) – an opinionated Englishman with a tangible disdain for the weak, gullible and “mentally defective”. Flattered by the extravagant compliments of lifelong friend and fellow illusionist Howard (Simon McBurney) – and abandoning plans to holiday with his pragmatic fiancée Olivia – Stanley agrees to a trip...
- 9/15/2014
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In Woody Allen's 44th outing, professional myth-debunker Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth) heads to the Cote D'Azur of the 1920s to investigate American clairvoyant Sophie Baker (Emma Stone) who has inveigled her way into the chateau of Pittsburgh's wealthy Catledge family to conduct séances for the wealthy and gullible widow (Jacki Weaver) that will bring her closer to the spirit of her late husband. However, while aiming to lift the lid on the philanderer, he finds himself falling for her.
- 9/5/2014
- Sky Movies
It seems every new Woody Allen film brings out in force the writer/director’s detractors, who kvetch that it’s “not one of his best” and that it’s “just another Woody Allen movie.” The first statement is certainly undeniable since he’s made so many masterpieces and the second observation is more or less true but so what? Magic In The Moonlight is currently sitting on a measly 52% over at Rotten Tomatoes with the 78-year old Allen being attacked for making the kind of movie he’s most known for — and most liked for — so long as he does it well. And with Magic In The Moonlight, Woody Allen has done it very well indeed. It’s not on the level of his great films – it’s not Annie Hall, Manhattan, or Blue Jasmine, but Magic In The MOONLIGHTis a kind of movie you rarely see in late...
- 8/7/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In my opinion a new Woody Allen movie every year is a bit of a treat. Yes, they can disappoint such as Whatever Works, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and To Rome with Love, but they can also be true knock outs such as Vicki Cristina Barcelona and Midnight in Paris, along with the stunning performance from Cate Blanchett in last year's Blue Jasmine, and that's only looking at the last six Allen films. He's directed nearly 50 over his illustrious career and I'd say his latest, Magic in the Moonlight, falls somewhere in the middle. Set in France in the 1920s, the film is complete with all the acerbic wit, pessimism for life and otherwise charm the better Allen films often exude. Magic in the Moonlight's first two-thirds are delightful as we're first introduced to Colin Firth in the role of Stanley Crawford, a pompous and arrogant...
- 7/21/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Hocus Pocus: Allen’s Latest a Re-hash of All-Too-Familiar Themes
Returning once more to the world of psychics and magicians to inform his breezy comedic styling, Woody Allen’s latest, Magic in the Moonlight, plays like the slight reconnoitering of a slew of other past titles from his filmography. While this is often a critique lobbed at Allen’s perennial offerings, his latest is a surprisingly uncharismatic and uninvolving recapitulation of the kinds of schemes he used in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), Scoop (2006), and a few others. If those are your favored Allen titles, then perhaps this one will be a pleasing trifle. However, whereas generally Allen applies a zany, broad streak to these scenarios, here we’re pared down to a quietly developing (and unlikely) romance between its two leads.
Wei Ling Soo, a famed Chinese conjurer in 1920’s Berlin, is actually the stage persona of a...
Returning once more to the world of psychics and magicians to inform his breezy comedic styling, Woody Allen’s latest, Magic in the Moonlight, plays like the slight reconnoitering of a slew of other past titles from his filmography. While this is often a critique lobbed at Allen’s perennial offerings, his latest is a surprisingly uncharismatic and uninvolving recapitulation of the kinds of schemes he used in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), Scoop (2006), and a few others. If those are your favored Allen titles, then perhaps this one will be a pleasing trifle. However, whereas generally Allen applies a zany, broad streak to these scenarios, here we’re pared down to a quietly developing (and unlikely) romance between its two leads.
Wei Ling Soo, a famed Chinese conjurer in 1920’s Berlin, is actually the stage persona of a...
- 7/21/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The marketing push for Woody Allen’s latest, a period romantic comedy titled Magic in the Moonlight, has been atypically slight in recent weeks, but Sony Pictures Classics is finally kicking its campaign into high gear with the release of dozens of images from the film, in addition to a large synopsis. Allen and company have no real reason to worry about his film’s box office chances, however – with his reputation and a cast including Emma Stone and Colin Firth, Magic in the Moonlight should cast quite a spell in theaters when it opens later this month.
A new set of images from the film, highlighting its stellar cast and period setting, have landed online, and you can check those out below. In addition to Stone and Firth, Magic in the Moonlight features Hamish Linklater, Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Erica Leerhsen, Eileen Atkins, Simon McBurney, Antonia Clarke and Jeremy Shamos.
A new set of images from the film, highlighting its stellar cast and period setting, have landed online, and you can check those out below. In addition to Stone and Firth, Magic in the Moonlight features Hamish Linklater, Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Erica Leerhsen, Eileen Atkins, Simon McBurney, Antonia Clarke and Jeremy Shamos.
- 7/10/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Woody Allen's Magic in the Moonlight begins hitting theaters on July 25 and so far I've only heard from one person that's seen it, but the response was positive over the upcoming romantic comedy starring Emma Stone and Colin Firth. The story follows an Englishman (Firth) brought in to help expose a psychic medium (Stone) as a fake. Personal and professional complications ensue. Jacki Weaver, Hamish Linklater, Eileen Atkins, Marcia Gay Harden, Erica Leerhsen and Simon McBurney co-star. The film is set in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions, the Cote d'Azur, jazz joints and fashionable spots for the wealthy of the Jazz Age, which makes me want to see it even more as I absolutely love that area. Today I have for you 18 new pictures (though a couple I think you may have seen before) and a new poster for the film along with the following,...
- 7/7/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
A hipster who likes Instagram
Hamilton Island is reaching out to Us based social media hipsters with a visit from a group of Instagrammers.
Hamilton Island will next month host what it had labelled the Ultimate InstaMeet which targets “Pilgramers”, Instagrammers on a pilrimage.
The event will see the group sharing their experiences via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and Tumblr. The inspiration behind the campaign is a group of Pilgramers in the Us who created the phrase and traveled from city to city across America before now heading to Australia.
As part of the Ultimate InstaMeet, Hamilton Island is running a competition for four Australians to join the visit.
The promotion has been featured in the Pilgramers YouTube web series.
Hamilton Island’s Pilgramers will visitWhitehaven Beach, explore the coral reef ecosystem, take a private flight, and cuddle koalas.
Sophie Baker, Hamilton Island’s senior communications manager, said: ‘The...
Hamilton Island is reaching out to Us based social media hipsters with a visit from a group of Instagrammers.
Hamilton Island will next month host what it had labelled the Ultimate InstaMeet which targets “Pilgramers”, Instagrammers on a pilrimage.
The event will see the group sharing their experiences via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and Tumblr. The inspiration behind the campaign is a group of Pilgramers in the Us who created the phrase and traveled from city to city across America before now heading to Australia.
As part of the Ultimate InstaMeet, Hamilton Island is running a competition for four Australians to join the visit.
The promotion has been featured in the Pilgramers YouTube web series.
Hamilton Island’s Pilgramers will visitWhitehaven Beach, explore the coral reef ecosystem, take a private flight, and cuddle koalas.
Sophie Baker, Hamilton Island’s senior communications manager, said: ‘The...
- 10/29/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
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