Tag Archives: Guy Pearce

Christmas Cracker #10 | Today: A Silly Hat

Hugo Weaving, Terence Stamp and Guy Pearce are having a Big-Bad Hair Day in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert! Today’s Silly Hat Cracker was brought to you by the letter:  R NB: The letters in our Crackers … Continue reading

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Film review | Justice – Nicolas Cage takes the money and runs. Again!

Nicolas Cage’s quality control is clearly still on the blink if the clunky screenplay for this routine action thriller is anything to go by. The latest in a string of Cage duds, Justice sees him in the role of an … Continue reading

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Film4 FrightFest 2011 Highlights | Day 1

Film4′s FrightFest 2011 kicked off with Jake West’s Escape from London, a kick-ass pastiche of John Carpenter’s cult classic, with the divine Lucy Clements playing Snake Plissken’s sister. It’s one of a series of tasty shorts being shown only during … Continue reading

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DVD review | Animal Kingdom

Set in 1980s Melbourne and loosely based on real events, hard-hitting crime drama Animal Kingdom has been dubbed an ‘Australian GoodFellas’. Director David Michôd isn’t as flashy as Scorsese, but his portrayal of the violent downfall of a dysfunctional family … Continue reading

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Name That Chest: His co-stars are a copper and a maypole

This week’s chest has a chilling connection to this time of year… Last week’s mystery chest was a star who has played a queen and a king (note the Royal references there – it is Royal Wedding week after all!) … Continue reading

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Does Colin Firth have a point about the plight of gay actors?

Earlier this week A Single Man star and Oscar nominee Colin Firth voiced some long overdue statements about the problem that exists for gay actors in Hollywood. Click here for the full news story. “If you’re known as a straight … Continue reading

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Nicolas Cage is certainly a bad lieutenant but is Mariah Carey really a good actress?

News Hound sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – because there’s nothing like a juicy bone to get you through the day… Nicolas Cage’s black comedy Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call … Continue reading

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At the Cinema | Traitor

Ridley Scott tackled the War on Terror last year with his muscular action thriller Body of Lies (which gets its DVD release on Monday 30th March). Now another film turns up at the cinema with the aim of getting to … Continue reading

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Win a copy of L.A. Confidential on DVD

This competition has now closed.  Curtis Hanson’s period crime thriller L.A. Confidential is over a decade old, but with its release on DVD and Blu-ray as a two-disc special edition the 1997 movie remains as gripping as ever. Based on … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Last week it was Transamerica, this week it’s The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – transsexuals are all the rage on TV at the moment it seems, and there’s more to come on Thursday. This road movie is … Continue reading

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