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Couch Potato’s Country Pickin’s: Something wrong with Country Strong

Posted on 5 February 2013 by Beth Williams

Following my trip last week to see Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 the Musical, I’ve reignited my passion for Dolly and all things country (long-term visitors to Movie Talk will recall my love for such subjects some 4 or 5 … Continue reading →

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Country Strong – Gwyneth Paltrow’s country singer gets by on a diet of booze and corn

Posted on 25 March 2011 by Jason Best

Looking toned and glowing on screen, Gwyneth Paltrow is a poster girl for the virtues of yoga and a macrobiotic diet – which makes her far too healthy-looking to convince as the troubled, booze-sodden singer at the heart of sudsy … Continue reading →

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Compare & Contrast bore Couch Potato on the Country Strong soundtrack

Posted on 21 March 2011 by Beth Williams

I’ve not yet seen Country Strong – it comes out here in the UK on Friday 25th March. All I know is that it stars Gwyneth Paltrow as a fictional country music star and it’s set in Nashville. However, being … Continue reading →

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Tron: Legacy – Sci-fi sequel arrives after 28 years. Was it worth the wait?

Posted on 20 December 2010 by Jason Best

When Tron: Legacy, the very belated sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 sci-fi thriller, explodes from 2D into 3D after 20 or so minutes have elapsed, the eyeball-scorching FX show just how far computer-generated imagery has progressed in the intervening decades. … Continue reading →

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Trailer Trash – Tron: Legacy

Posted on 27 October 2010 by Dean

Have you ever wondered what, exactly, goes on inside your computer? Why it always seems to crash when you most need it to work? Why running too many programs at once causes pages to hang? Me neither. I recently re-watched … Continue reading →

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