Monthly Archives: November 2008

Sleepers and Kevin Bacon

Posted on 30 November 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings This is the perfect film for illustrating the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. It’s also a great movie. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Nashville – You’re Lookin’ at Country

Posted on 29 November 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I first watched this Robert Altman film just before I took a trip to America’s Music City last year. I hoped it would provide some … Continue reading →

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News Muse – Hollywood recycling

Posted on 28 November 2008 by Adele Craciun

re⋅cy⋅cle     [ree-sahy-kuhl] 1.    to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees. 2.    to alter or adapt for new use without changing the essential form or nature of: The … Continue reading →

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Big Screen – This week’s top ten at the cinema…

Posted on 28 November 2008 by admin

Quantum of Solace Secret service… Bond’s latest mission takes him to Austria, Italy and South America on the trail of a shady environmentalist. It also gives him a chance to show off his running and jumping skills. Body of Lies … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Angelina Jolie’s heroic single mom takes on the LAPD in Clint Eastwood’s true-crime shocker Changeling

Posted on 28 November 2008 by Jason Best

Angelina Jolie is so gorgeous, so exotic, her looks and manner so singular that you’d think the range of roles open to her would be limited. An ideal Lara Croft; perfect as a slinky assassin in Wanted; Oscar-worthy as a … Continue reading →

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Manhunter

Posted on 28 November 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings On ITV1 tonight at 11.45pm You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video This film introduced the world to Thomas Harris‘s serial killer Hannibal Lecter, but it doesn’t star Anthony Hopkins. No, Brian … Continue reading →

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Deliverance

Posted on 27 November 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings On ITV4 tonight at 10.30pm You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Mean Creek, The Beverly Hillbillies, Big Fish, The Royle Family, The Office, The Golden Girls, Little Britain… These are just … Continue reading →

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Mamma Mia! out now on DVD

Posted on 26 November 2008 by Adele Craciun

The fabulous movie musical is finally available on DVD so you can relive all the joy and the drama from the comfort of your own sofa. Not that you’d be sitting on it for long as the disc has some … Continue reading →

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Babe and movie snacks

Posted on 26 November 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings On ITV2 tonight at 8pm You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video After being won by a kindly farmer at a country fair, piglet Babe is adopted by a sheepdog who shows … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – This week’s top ten DVDS…

Posted on 25 November 2008 by admin

Mamma Mia! Dancing Queen… Meryl Streep can dance. Meryl Streep can jive. Meryl Streep is clearly having the time of her life in this money, money, money-making film version of the musical inspired by ABBA songs. The Chronicles of Narnia: … Continue reading →

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