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Couch Potato Pickings | Premature Filmstar Deaths from the Past Decade
How many premature deaths have there been recently in the world of movies? Far too many that’s what I say! From terminal illness to accidents to drug abuse, the film industry has lost some great talent within the past ten … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaliyah, anna nicole smith, Bedazzled, Betty White, Brad Renfro, Brittany Murphy, Christopher Reeve, corey haim, David Carradine, dennis hopper, dudley moore, Farrah Fawcett, Geoffrey Rush, Giant, Girl Interrupted, Heath Ledger, Kill Bill: Vol 2, Lynn Redgrave, Michael Jackson, michael jackson's this is it, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Swayze, premature death, Queen of the Damned, rue mcclanahan, Shine, Starship Troopers, The Dark Knight, the lost boys, the parent trap
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Couch Potato Pickings: Womanisers and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
The title say it all really. Matthew McConaughey plays a serial womaniser in a (somewhat clumsy but watchable)) romcom spin on Charles Dickens‘ classic festive tale, A Christmas Carol. Will filmmakers ever tire of adapting this literary classic? Probably not. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfie, Austin Powers, Boomerang, casanova, Eddie Murphy, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Goldfinger, Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, Jack Black, James Bond, Jennifer Garner, jesse metcalfe, john tucker must die, Johnny Depp, jude law, ladies' men, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine, Michael Douglas, Mike Myers, movie womanisers, Owen Wilson, Pirates of the Caribbean, richard roundtree, Samuel L Jackson, Sean Connery, shaft, Shallow Hal, someone like you, Vince Vaughn, wedding crashers
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans – Acting Crazy
Some actors are just really good at going all out and channeling their inner crazy. The latest one to be brilliantly screen insane is Nicolas Cage as corrupt-cop-with-a-habit Terence McDonagh in Werner Herzog‘s NOT remake Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, american psycho, analyze this, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, bringing out the dead, cape fear, captain jack sparrow, castor troy, charlie and the chocolate factory, Christian Bale, face/off, fear and loathing in las vegas, frank pierce, Heath Ledger, jack byrnes, Jack Nicholson, jack torrance, Johnny Depp, klaus kinski, lethal weapon, max cady, meet the fockers, meet the parents, Mel Gibson, Nicolas Cage, patrick bateman, paul vitti, Pirates of the Caribbean, raoul duke, Robert De Niro, sailor ripley, sgt martin riggs, Taxi Driver, terence mcdonagh, The Dark Knight, The Joker, The Shining, travis bickle, werner herzog, wild at heart, willy wonka
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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…
2012 Impending doom… A series of cataclysmic events plunge the world into chaos and threaten to destroy life on Earth in Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic epic. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you … Continue reading
Posted in Small Screen - DVD Top 10
Tagged 2012, An Education, Harry Brown, Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, jude law, Michael Caine, Nick Horny, Paranormal Activity, Terry Gilliam, The Fourth Kind, The Hurt Locker, the imaginarium of doctor parnassus, the twilight saga: new moon, this is it, Zombieland
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Out on DVD | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Terry Gilliam’s flights of fantasy keep tragedy-hit film aloft
Famously, Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was very nearly derailed by the sudden death of Heath Ledger last January. Equally famously, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell then rallied round to step into Ledger’s shoes and save … Continue reading
How to win an Oscar – some simple rules
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Regardless of how you might take Kate Winslet’s risqué tips on bagging that Academy Award, there are some simple rules to securing an Oscar. Let’s look at the … Continue reading
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Tagged A Single Man, Academy Awards, aileen wuornos, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Boy's Don't Cry, Braveheart, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Charlize Theron, Colin Firth, Crazy Heart, Daniel Day Lewis, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Taylor, Erin Brokovich, Extras, Forrest Gump, frankly my dear i don't give a damn, Geoffrey Rush, Gone With the Wind, Goodfellas, Hannibal Lecter, Harvey Milk, Heath Ledger, Helen Mirren, Hilary Swank, I Am Sam, i see dead people, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Maguire, Joan Fontaine, john wayne, Judi Dench, Julia Roberts, june carter cash, Kate Winslet, Kathryn Bigelow, life is beautiful, life is like a box of chocolates, Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Million Dollar Baby, monster, mrs brown, my left foot, my precious, Oscar, Peter Jackson, Philadelphia, Philip Seymour Hoffman, raging bull, Rain Man, ray, Ray Charles, Rebecca, Reese Witherspoon, Rosemary's Baby, ruth gordon, Scent of a Woman, Sean Penn, Shakespeare in Love, Shine, show me the money, Sixth Sense, suspicion, Taxi Driver, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, the lord of the rings: the return of the king, the lord of the rings: the two towers, the queen, The Silence of the Lambs, The Wrestler, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, true grit, Truman Capote, Walk the Line, who's afraid of virginia woolf, William Wallace, you talkin' to me
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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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Tagged A Single Man, alan cumming, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Colin Firth, Cynthia Nixon, Dennis Quaid, Far From Heaven, Four Weddings and a Funeral, gay actors, gay roles, Guy Pearce, Heath Ledger, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, Imagine Me and You, Infamous, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Wilby, John Leguizamo, jude law, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Lena Headey, Mamma Mia, Maurice, Meryl Streep, midnight in the garden of good and evil, Milk, My Best Friend's Wedding, nathan lane, Patrick Swayze, Philadelphia, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Piper Perabo, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Robin Williams, Rupert Everett, Sean Penn, simon callow, Stephen Fry, Terence Stamp, the birdcage, to wong foo thanks for everything julie newmar, Toby Jones, Tom Hanks, wesley snipes, wilde
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Cannes Lifts Off – but the world’s most glamorous film festival tones down the glitz
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival lifts off today with the world premiere of Pixar’s Up, but as the red carpets are rolled out, reports are circulating that the Festival’s trademark glitz has been toned down from blinding to merely squint-worthy thanks to the … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings | I’m Not There
On Sky Movies Premiere tonight at 11.45pm Have you ever felt left out because you don’t understand? I’m sure we all experience this from time to time, don’t we? A memorable example of this for me was a few years … Continue reading
