Tag Archives: Golden Globe

At the Cinema | Crazy Heart – Jeff Bridges is on song as a washed-up country music star

Jeff Bridges has already won a Golden Globe for his portrayal in Crazy Heart of a down-on-his-luck country singer – and he’s a firm favourite to walk off with an Oscar in a few weeks too. Modelled on such hard-living … Continue reading

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News Muse – Looks do deceive, at least in Hollywood

I was quite excited this week to hear that fellow Swede and Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson has been given as exciting a project as The Danish Girl – the true-story drama that will see Nicole Kidman … Continue reading

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The Best View | Revolutionary Road – The American Dream turns sour for Kate & Leo in 1950s suburbia

Set in 1950s Connecticut and New York, Sam Mendes’s classy period drama Revolutionary Road inhabits the world depicted so brilliantly by Mad Men, a world where middle-class men in grey-flannel suits troop off to meaningless jobs in the city while … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings – La Vie en Rose

La Vie en Rose On Sky Movies Premiere this afternoon at 3.35 pm (and tomorrow afternoon at 5.35pm, and 5.05pm on Friday) When I first saw this film, on an overnight flight from New York to London, I gave up … Continue reading

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