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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Trivia: Arthur – not the 1st Gielgud-role gender-switch for Mirren

The 2011 comedy remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore film Arthur marks the second occasion that Helen Mirren has re-played a role formerly played by John Gielgud and reinterpreted it as a woman. In the 2011 Russell Brand movie, Mirren … Continue reading

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

Thor Holding out for hero… Chris Hemsworth gets to flex his pecs as the titular hammer-weilding superhero in this Kenneth Branagh comic book adaptation. Fast Five Engine trouble… The high-octane Fast & Furious franchise continues as Dominic and his crew … Continue reading

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

Thor Holding out for hero… Chris Hemsworth gets to flex his pecs as the titular hammer-weilding superhero in this Kenneth Branagh comic book adaptation. Fast Five Engine trouble… The high-octane Fast & Furious franchise continues as Dominic and his crew … Continue reading

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

Thor Holding out for hero… Chris Hemsworth gets to flex his pecs as the titular hammer-weilding superhero in this Kenneth Branagh comic book adaptation. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need … Continue reading

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

Fast Five Engine trouble… The high-octane Fast & Furious franchise continues as Dominic and his crew try to outsmart a drug baron and a ruthless federal agent. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade … Continue reading

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Arthur – Russell Brand: fey, vain and just right for the part of a permanently wasted wastrel

Just as Depression-era audiences lapped up the screwball comedy antics of the idle rich, so did cinemagoers at the height of the early-1980s recession warm to the tipsy exploits of Dudley Moore’s drunken playboy Arthur. Now that we’re once more … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Arthur, and a Music Quiz

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video If you get caught between the Moon and New York City The best that you can do …… The best that you can do is fall in love … Continue reading

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News Muse | Fame & the Hollywood recession

‘You’ve got big dreams? You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying – in sweat!’ It was Debbie Allen‘s tough dance teacher Lydia Grant who’d utter those fame-ous words every time the theme tune … Continue reading

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