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Couch Potato has a brand new couch, and needs a film to mark the occasion

I’m very excited. Two brand new couches have arrived at my home today. But, I’m in turmoil. I can’t decide which film to watch to mark this great day. These are the contenders: Up in the Air Did You Hear … Continue reading

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Alice in Wonderland | Tim Burton’s version of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale – minus 3D

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland comes out on Blu-ray and DVD today – exactly 13 weeks after its cinema release. You’ll probably recall the big dust-up between Disney and some of Europe’s cinema chains over this early release. Major Hollywood … Continue reading

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans – Acting Crazy

Some actors are just really good at going all out and channeling their inner crazy. The latest one to be brilliantly screen insane is Nicolas Cage as corrupt-cop-with-a-habit Terence McDonagh in Werner Herzog‘s NOT remake Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Rachel Getting Married – is this Anne Hathaway’s best film?

So which is Anne Hathaway‘s best film? She’s great in all of them (OK, well maybe not Bride Wars), but for me Rachel Getting Married is by far her best performance to date. In it she plays recovering drug addict … Continue reading

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

Clash of the Titans Greek tragedy… This big-budget remake of the 1981 fantasy classic stars Avatar’s Sam Worthington as Perseus, the demi-god charged with rescuing Argos (the Greek city, not the catalogue-based retail chain) from vengeful Hades and the monstrous … Continue reading

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

Clash of the Titans Greek tragedy… This big-budget remake of the 1981 fantasy classic stars Avatar’s Sam Worthington as Perseus, the demi-god charged with rescuing Argos (the Greek city, not the catalogue-based retail chain) from vengeful Hades and the monstrous … Continue reading

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

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Child’s play… This fantasy sequel, set during World War Two, sees the magical nanny arrive on a family farm to help a hectic young mother cope with her three boisterous children and their two … Continue reading

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

Alice in Wonderland Friends reunited… Tim Burton’s fantasy adventures sees the Alice of Lewis Caroll’s classic stories return to the magical land of her childhood and reunite with her old friends in a bid to end the Red Queen’s reign … Continue reading

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

Alice in Wonderland Friends reunited… Tim Burton’s fantasy adventures sees the Alice of Lewis Caroll’s classic stories return to the magical land of her childhood and reunite with her old friends in a bid to end the Red Queen’s reign … Continue reading

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At the Cinema | Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll’s beloved heroine goes for a Burton

You’d think Tim and Alice would be the perfect match. Tim Burton, master of the weird and off-kilter, and Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s dream-like and surreal Victorian masterpiece: an ideal combination, surely? Yet Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, though dazzling … Continue reading

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