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Couch Potato’s Top Women in the World of Film

I wanted to feature a celebration of outstanding women in the film industry to mark the International Women’s Day Centenary today. But there are so many women deserving of acknowledgement, and no time to list them all. So I’ve pulled … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings: I should find Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang a real turn off, but I’ve found 8 things to like

Spoilt and unruly kids screaming in their high pitched little voices is my idea of hell. So a film filled with them shouldn’t have any appeal whatsover, but strangely this one does. Here’s why: 1. Nanny McPhee & the Big … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Wedges – Dipping into some lesser-known Love Actually trivia

Teaser: Love Actually features the lead actors from another well-known movie. I’ll leave you pondering that thought. More on that later… Cameos Can you name all of the Love Actually cameos? No doubt you can reel off Claudia Schiffer, Rowan … Continue reading

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Nanny McPhee Competition Winners

Our competition to win a fabulous Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang book and soundtrack has now closed. Thanks to Universal for supplying the prizes and well done to all the entrants who answered correctly that Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the … Continue reading

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Win Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang Soundtrack and Book

This competition has now closed. To celebrate the release of Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang we’ve teamed up with Universal to give five lucky winners a chance to win a fabulous Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang book and … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Brideshead Revisited

  When the TV series of Brideshead Revisited hit UK screens in the early 1980s it saw most UK households tuning in. Those of us old enough will remember that adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, and recall how Jeremy Irons … Continue reading

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

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Robots in disguise… This big-budget sequel sees Sam Witwicky again joining forces with the Autobots in their battle against the Decepticons; a battle, it seems, that may have started on Earth many years before… If … Continue reading

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

The Hangover Night to remember… Four friends travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. The next morning, they wake up with no memory of the night before! If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player … Continue reading

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

Terminator Salvation Robot wars… Christian Bale attempts to save humanity from being wiped out by intelligent machines – and woe betide any cinematographers who get in his way. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Ghost and most romantic movie moments of all time

Showing on Channel 4 tonight at 10.35pm This film is regularly voted highly in those polls of romantic moments in the movies, and there was one year when it came in at Number One. When I read this I was … Continue reading

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