Monthly Archives: November 2008

Brick Lane

Posted on 25 November 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings On Channel 4 tonight at 10pm After an arranged marriage, a Bangladeshi woman movies to London’s Tower Hamlets district and begins a dutiful life with her much older husband, but after many years she meets a local … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Toothsome teen vampire movie Twilight gets fans in a frenzy

Posted on 24 November 2008 by Jason Best

Teenage girls were whooping and squealing with delight at yesterday’s first UK screening of Twilight – the teen vampire movie based on a series of best-selling novels by US author Stephenie Meyer. And that was before the film had even … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Wall·E & Short Circuit – Separated at Birth?

Posted on 24 November 2008 by Jason Best

The arrival on DVD of the Disney/Pixar animated comedy Wall·E has got us thinking. The eco-friendly movie features as its hero a lonely robot who is still tidying a rubbish-choked Earth seven centuries after those litter louts, humans, deserted the … Continue reading →

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This is England and the skinhead culture

Posted on 24 November 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings This is a powerful and brilliantly performed film that shows how the 1980s skinhead culture which began in the 1960s among working class youths, developed a disturbing racist arm. Influenced by the cultures of West Indian rude … Continue reading →

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Spice World to Spice Up Your Afternoon

Posted on 23 November 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings On Watch this afternoon at 2pm In 1997 I loved the Spice Girls and my favourite spice was Ginger. They were confident, bolshy, attractive girls who sang great songs and promoted Girl Power. However, at some point … Continue reading →

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Movie Talk on Pillow Talk

Posted on 22 November 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings On ITV2 today at 2pm While most people assumed that heartthrob Rock Hudson was a ladies’ man, the gay community knew he wasn’t heterosexual well before he finally revealed the truth about his sexuality just before he … Continue reading →

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The Best view | DiCaprio & Crowe go head to head in Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies

Posted on 21 November 2008 by Jason Best

There are two competing movies jostling for dominance in Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe as CIA men immersed in dodgy dealings in the Middle East. The first is a thoughtful political thriller that … Continue reading →

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News Muse – advertising Australia

Posted on 21 November 2008 by Adele Craciun

And so the day finally arrived when Baz Luhrmann had to drop the scissors and come out of the editing room to hand over a copy of his £80million epic Australia for its much anticipated world premiere in Sydney. It … Continue reading →

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – DVD competition winners

Posted on 21 November 2008 by Jason Best

  Our competition to win a copy of of the 2-disc DVD special edition of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is now closed. Well done to all our entrants – everyone answered correctly that Indiana Jones’s … Continue reading →

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Competition | Win the Will Smith action comedy Hancock on DVD

Posted on 21 November 2008 by Jason Best

This competition has now closed.  Will Smith stars as a very different kind of superhero in the action comedy fantasy Hancock, which comes out on DVD on 1st December. He may have super strength and the ability to fly, but … Continue reading →

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