Tag Archives: Guy Pearce

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

Posted on 3 May 2012 by Dean & Ellen

Avengers Assemble Team effort… Joss Whedon unites some of Marvel’s most noteworthy superheroes to save Earth from a deadly onslaught launched by Thor’s adoptive brother, Loki. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 27 April 2012 by Dean & Ellen

Battleship Naval gazing… Hasbro’s classic naval combat game inspires this big-screen action fantasy, in which Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Liam Neeson and Rude Boy singer Rihanna play Navy personnel battling an armada of alien invaders. If you can see this, … Continue reading →

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Film review | Lockout – Quick with his quips & his fists: Guy Pearce’s Snow is as cool as his name

Posted on 20 April 2012 by Jason Best

Guy Pearce’s cynical anti-hero Snow doesn’t sport a black eye-patch in sci-fi action thriller Lockout but otherwise he’s a dead ringer for Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken. The resemblance isn’t a surprise: producer Luc Besson has pretty much taken the plot … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Get ready to hide under the duvet as Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark comes home

Posted on 19 February 2012 by peter

Don’t Be Afraid Of the Dark, from the pen of fantasy favourite Guillermo del Toro, should have been called Don’t Look Under the Duvet or The Girl Who Cried ‘Bedbugs!’ as it’s about some nasty miniature menaces chasing a withdrawn … Continue reading →

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Christmas Cracker #10 | Today: A Silly Hat

Posted on 26 December 2011 by heidi

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!

Posted on 17 November 2011 by Jason Best

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

Posted on 26 August 2011 by peter

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

Posted on 11 July 2011 by Jason Best

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

Posted on 27 April 2011 by Beth Williams

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?

Posted on 3 February 2010 by Beth Williams

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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