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Couch Potato Pickings | Eclipse & It’s Complicated – two love dilemmas, two generations

Posted on 10 December 2010 by Beth Williams

Cheerful romcom It’s Complicated and Eclipse – the final film in the supernatural Twilight saga – tell two very different stories. The first is a merry yarn about divorced, middle-aged mother of three Jane (Meryl Streep), and the other is … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 10 September 2010 by Ellen

Dear John Paper Mates…Hunky sergeant Channing Tatum and doe-eyed Amanda Seyfried swap love letters while he’s at war. Can their romance survive in this slushy melodrama? Sherlock Holmes Partners in crime… Sleuth Holmes (Robert Downey Jr) and stalwart sidekick Watson … Continue reading →

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Lymelife – Ticked off: A tragi-comedy set in 1970s suburbia

Posted on 23 August 2010 by Jason Best

What Ang Lee did for early 1970s Connecticut with his tragic-comic 1997 film The Ice Storm, Derick Martini attempts for late 1970s Long Island with his debut film, the similarly tragic-comic Lymelife. The parallels between the two movies are striking. … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 19 August 2010 by admin

The Blind Side Back on track… This American drama features an Oscar-winning performance from Sandra Bullock as a woman who helps to nurture a homeless teenager to sporting glory. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | My Sister’s Keeper – wow, what a weepie!

Posted on 23 July 2010 by Beth Williams

What a puffy face I had after watching this. I don’t think I’ve cried so much since Terms of Endearment. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 20 May 2010 by admin

Sherlock Holmes Partners in crime… Sleuth Holmes (Robert Downey Jr) and stalwart sidekick Watson (Jude Law) are on the trail of a serial killer who appears to have risen from the dead in Guy Ritchie’s period thriller. If you can … Continue reading →

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News Muse Special – The Oscars Experience

Posted on 6 March 2010 by Adele Craciun

News Muse is wishing she belonged to the Hollywood glitterati and could get a seat next to some hottie at the Oscars ceremony. Instead, the reality is that she got rejected off the bleachers and doesn’t have access to the … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 3 February 2010 by admin

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.


 Alvin and the Chipmunks … Continue reading →

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Hollywood’s epic love affair with disaster reaches new highs… and lows

Posted on 6 November 2009 by Adele Craciun

News Muse ponders over the latest movie gossip, giving you her unique take on all the showbiz shenanigans… Last week I was devastated to hear that Hugh Jackman has turned down hosting the Oscars next year. This week the producers … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 29 July 2009 by admin

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince It’s a kind of magic… Harry and his Hogwarts cohorts have to contend with a new potions teacher, Voldemort’s Death Eaters, and raging hormones in their sixth year at the School of Witchcraft and … Continue reading →

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