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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Pete’s Peek | Smash Cut
Who said all low-budget horror films are crap? Canadian filmmaker Lee Demarbre has come up with a tongue-in-cheek homage to the wizard of gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis, that actually works. If you’re not familiar with HGL’s oeuvre, he was responsible … Continue reading
Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…
Inglourious Basterds Bloody battle… Set in Nazi-occupied France during World War Two, Quentin Tarantino’s revenge movie follows a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers as they attempt to spread fear through the Third Reich. If you can see this, then you … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases
Tagged Aliens in the Attic, Dance Flick, Eric Bana, G-Force, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Inglourious Basterds, quentin tarantino, Rachel McAdams, Sienna Miller, The Proposal, The Time Traveler’s Wife
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News Hound | 26 August 2009
Movie Talk sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – so you don’t get your head stuck inside the wrong bin… The London International Animation Festival returns for the sixth year running, … Continue reading
Posted in News, News Hound
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Speaker’s Corner | Julie Tese reveals why White Palace is her Guilty Pleasure
My tatty old video of White Palace is dated 1990, the year the film came out. Nearly twenty years old; but the theme provides the same guilty pleasure now as it did then – older woman wowing much younger guy … Continue reading
Duplicity DVD Competition Winners
Our competition to win a DVD of the witty espionage comedy Duplicity starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen is now closed. Thanks to Universal Pictures for supplying the prizes. And well done to all our entrants who answered correctly that … Continue reading
The Best view | In the Loop – Cock-ups and conspiracies in the run-up to war
For all those still seething over the cynical manipulation and mendacity behind Bush and Blair’s rush to war in Iraq, Armando Iannucci’s blistering political satire In the Loop offers a measure of catharsis. Based on The Thick of It, Iannucci’s … Continue reading
Pete’s Peek | From Within – packed with chills!
Supernatural fans will get a chill of excitement out of this scary little tale of sorcery, revenge and murder. Like a feature-length version of the popular TV drama, albeit minus that show’s heartthrob leads, From Within, has its own pin-up … Continue reading
Posted in DVD Releases, Pete's Peek
Tagged Final Destination, From Within, Sarah Connor, Terminator, The Grudge, The Ring, Thomas Dekker
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Couch Potato Pickings | Sky Kids and staycations
If, like me, you’re taking a staycation this year, then I’m full of admiration. Enjoy your break. Personally, I’ve been staycationing (in the sense of holidaying in the UK) for years. The country’s so varied – every region, every county … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged jesse james, movie-lovers' london, reiley mcclendon, Sky Kids, staycation, stephen baldwin, tom sizemore
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News Muse – You have been Photoshopped!
It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of Keira Knightley. But it seems that Chanel are. She hit the headlines not long ago when she allegedly refused to have her bosom digitally enhanced for The Duchess. Yet, in … Continue reading
