Tag Archives: Changeling

Couch Potato Pickings | Changeling – are true crime movies more powerful than fictional ones?

Posted on 27 January 2010 by Beth Williams

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 →

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The Best view | Frozen River – Melissa Leo keeps it real in gripping blue-collar thriller

Posted on 21 July 2009 by Jason Best

Melissa Leo. Who? No idea? I thought as much. If, though, the name of this 48-year-old American actress does ring a faint bell it’s probably because she was the odd one out among this year’s Oscar nominees; the little known, … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 15 April 2009 by admin

Twilight Pain in the neck… Teenager Bella Swann moves to a small town in Washington and falls for her mysterious classmate, Edward Cullen, who turns out to be a 108-year-old vampire. If you can see this, then you might need … Continue reading →

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Changeling Competition Winners

Posted on 14 April 2009 by Jason Best

Our competition to win a copy of Clint Eastwood’s period crime thriller Changeling on DVD is now closed. Thanks to Universal Pictures for supplying the prizes. And well done to all our entrants who answered correctly that Girl, Interrupted is … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 8 April 2009 by admin

Quantum of Solace Secret service… Bond’s latest mission takes him to Austria, Italy and South America on the trail of a shady environmentalist. It also gives him a chance to show off his running and jumping skills. If you can … Continue reading →

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Win a copy of Changeling on DVD

Posted on 27 March 2009 by Jason Best

This competition has now closed. Angelina Jolie stars as a woman fighting for justice in 1920s California in Clint Eastwood’s gripping period crime drama based on true events. When working single mother Christine Collins’s nine-year-old son goes missing one day … Continue reading →

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Awards Season | Slumdog Millionaire & Benjamin Button lead the field at the Baftas

Posted on 15 January 2009 by Jason Best

Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button are the frontrunners in the race for this year’s Bafta awards, whose nominations were announced today. Slumdog, Danny Boyle’s tale of a Mumbai street kid, and Benjamin Button, David Fincher’s eccentric … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Angelina Jolie’s heroic single mom takes on the LAPD in Clint Eastwood’s true-crime shocker Changeling

Posted on 28 November 2008 by Jason Best

Angelina Jolie is so gorgeous, so exotic, her looks and manner so singular that you’d think the range of roles open to her would be limited. An ideal Lara Croft; perfect as a slinky assassin in Wanted; Oscar-worthy as a … Continue reading →

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