Tag Archives: Anne Hathaway

DVD review | Rio – Who’s a pretty birdie, then!

The colourful and exuberant animated movie Rio takes its cue from the sights, sounds and spirit of Rio de Janeiro at carnival time. The story revolves, however, around a figure who feels very much out of place there. Timid and neurotic … Continue reading

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

The Inbetweeners Movie Brits abroad… School’s out – and over – for the four unlikely pals from Rudge Park Comprehensive and to celebrate they head to Malia, Crete, for a holiday they’ll soon want to forget! If you can see … Continue reading

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Name That Chest: Some boulder-breasted beefcake

Since the polished pectoral muscles of Jason Momoa‘s Conan the Barbarian will be rippling across cinema screens from today, I’ve decided to select another buff body from film history for this week’s mystery chest. Who is this? And what’s the … Continue reading

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Oscars 2011 – Movie Talk’s live report on the 83rd Academy Awards

Here we are, Movie Talk’s Jason & Adele, ready to begin our live report on the Oscars. Sadly we’re not at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood Boulevard but in an office in Southwark. By day, Movie Talk tower (aka the … Continue reading

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Oscars Muse – The countdown has begun

Roll out the red carpet! News Muse has thrown on a swanky designer frock and a pair of Jimmy Choo-Choos to walk you through the nominated movies and keep you up-to-date with all things Oscar in the run-up to the … Continue reading

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News Muse – The slow build-up to Oscars mania

I’m counting the days till 25 January when the Oscar nominations are announced. Sure, sure, there’s all the excitement of the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs before that. But if you ask me, nothing else in the awards season calendar … Continue reading

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Trailer Trash – Love and Other Drugs

The last time Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway appeared on screen together things did not end well. In 2005’s Brokeback Mountain, Jake’s Jack met a premature end and Anne’s Lureen lost forever the husband whose heart belonged to another, Heath … Continue reading

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Couch Potato’s Movie Wedding Album

How well did you do with my movie wedding picture quiz yesterday? Think you guessed them all correctly? Well, now you can find out. Here are the answers:

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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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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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