Monthly Archives: March 2009

Couch Potato Pickings | Love Actually has been pulled from today’s schedule

Posted on 31 March 2009 by Beth Williams

Love Actually had been scheduled to show on ITV2 tonight but the channel has decided to pull it from the line up and replace it with The 40 Year Old Virgin. Now, despite the fact that Love Actually is one … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Salaam Bombay! – “The original Slumdog Millionaire”

Posted on 30 March 2009 by Jason Best

When Mira Nair’s moving tribute to the resilience of Bombay’s street children was first seen in 1988, it drew comparisons with François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows for its unflinching depiction of a deprived young boy’s struggle against the odds. Twenty-odd … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Body of Lies

Posted on 30 March 2009 by Jason Best

Ridley Scott gives us his typically muscular take on the War on Terror with Body of Lies, a political action thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe as strategically and temperamentally opposed CIA men. DiCaprio’s the agent in the field … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Blindness – A chilling parable

Posted on 30 March 2009 by Jason Best

Based on a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago and directed by Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles (maker of City of God and The Constant Gardener), Blindness is a chilling parable set in an unnamed city stricken by an epidemic … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Crash: Did it deserve that Best Picture Oscar?

Posted on 30 March 2009 by Beth Williams

Showing on Film 4 tonight at 9pm I you visited Movie Talk on Saturday then you’ll already know that I wasn’t happy back in 2006 that tonight’s film won the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards. Now, this is … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Lakeview Terrace

Posted on 29 March 2009 by Jason Best

Neil LaBute’s unnerving thriller Lakeview Terrace fits squarely within the genre dubbed “suburban psycho-neighbour noir” (remember Pacific Heights?). This time the nut next door is Samuel L Jackson’s Abel Turner, an LAPD officer and self-appointed neighbourhood watchman whose niggling harassment … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | In the Company of Men

Posted on 29 March 2009 by Beth Williams

On BBC1 tonight at 11pm You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Now here’s a film that really divides opinion. Two businessmen, both recently jilted by their girlfriends, set out to pay back womankind by … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Brokeback Mountain: Why didn’t it win that Best Picture Oscar?

Posted on 28 March 2009 by Beth Williams

The other day I told a film critic friend of mine that I’d decided to do a post about Brokeback Mountain because it was going to be showing on TV within two days of Crash? (Come back on Monday for … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Traitor

Posted on 27 March 2009 by Jason Best

Ridley Scott tackled the War on Terror last year with his muscular action thriller Body of Lies (which gets its DVD release on Monday 30th March). Now another film turns up at the cinema with the aim of getting to … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | The Life Before Her Eyes

Posted on 27 March 2009 by Jason Best

Finding the right words to describe The Life Before Her Eyes is tough. Say too much and you risk giving everything away. Even attempting to pin the film down too firmly in one particular genre may be a spoiler. Suffice … Continue reading →

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