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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…
Avatar Out of this world… Titanic director James Cameron creates an alien world starring Sigourney Weaver in what could be the most expensive movie ever made – but this time the aliens are the good guys. Sherlock Holmes Partners in … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings | Changeling – are true crime movies more powerful than fictional ones?
If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. It is of course difficult to say whether true crime movies are … Continue reading
Out on DVD | Suspiria – A horror masterpiece from Italian maestro Dario Argento
I couldn’t avoid Dario Argento when I lived in Italy. A giant poster from one of his films loomed from the cinema across the road when I moved into my flat. An artfully slain woman featured prominently, of course, a … Continue reading
Posted in DVD Releases, Reviews, The Best View
Tagged Dario Argento, frightfest, Giallo, goblin, Italian horror, jessica harper, Kim Newman, suspiria, witches
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District 9 Competition Winners
Our competition to win a Blu-ray disc of the critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller District 9 is now closed. Thanks to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for supplying the prizes and well done to all the entrants who answered correctly that District … Continue reading
Posted in Competitions
Tagged Blu-ray competition, District 9, Johannesburg, Sci-fi, South Africa
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Couch Potato Pickings | Jaws, and some marine madness
Would you be brave enough? This aquatic stunt was rigged up in London Aquarium to promote the first showing of Jaws in HD today on Sky Movies Modern Greats. Methinks this pair of underwater couch potatoes look far too relaxed. … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Jaws, london aquarium, movie themes, Steven Spielberg
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Couch Potato Pickings | Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam
Hollywood may well be a world of red carpets, paparazzi, luxury homes and glamour, but it also has its seedy side and ‘Hollywood Madam’ Heidi Fleiss was for many years right at the heart of it. And back in 1995, … Continue reading
Kim Newman’s Guide to the Flipside Of British Cinema
Here at Movie Talk, we just love the Flipside releases from the BFI – featuring some of the best cult movies ever committed to DVD (check out our review of the Peter Watkins classic, Privilege). As a companion to this … Continue reading
Pete’s Peek: Jean-Luc Godard’s Une Femme Mariée is sublime
Long out-of-circulation, Jean-Luc Godard’s enigmatic 1964 masterpiece makes it’s UK debut thanks to Masters of Cinema. The divine Macha Méril plays the bored wife of a pilot who carries on her affair with an actor whenever her husband jets out … Continue reading
Posted in DVD Releases, Pete's Peek, Reviews
Tagged 1964, Blu-ray, Jean-Luc Godard, Une Femme Mariee
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Pete’s Peek | Thora Birch has a helluva ride in Train
Did you know that only some 20% of Americans own a passport and that only 10% of them actually use it? Well, after seeing Train, I can probably guess why. Following a night of partying in some unspecified Eastern European … Continue reading
Posted in DVD Releases, Pete's Peek, Reviews
Tagged Horror, Hostel, Splatter, Thora Birch, Train
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Pete’s Peek | Peter Watkins’ Privilege still packs a punch!
Long before David Beckham became brand Beckham selling his good looks and soccer prowess to the youth of today, the enigmatic 1960s film director Peter Watkins conjured up a nightmarish vision of Britain where its totalitarian rulers used the power … Continue reading
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