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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Secrets and lies… John le Carre’s classic spy novel gets a slow-burn big screen adaptation with an all-star cast, including Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy and Kathy Burke. If you can see this, then you … Continue reading
Posted in Big Screen - Cinema Top 10
Tagged Abduction, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Anna Faris, Colin Firth, Crazy, drive, Gary Oldman, Helen Mirren, Joel Edgerton, John Le Carré, love, Shark Night 3D, Soldier, Spy, Steve Carell, Stupid, Tailor, The Debt, The Inbetweeners Movie, The Phantom of the Opera (25th Anniversary Concert), Tinker, Tom Hardy, Warrior, What’s Your Number?
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Name That Chest: He’s named after a tree, but not the one in his hand…
And this actor has roles in two films being released in cinemas this week… Whose tastefully displayed chest featured in last week’s Name That Chest? Check out the answer to that mystery here. Discuss these chests on our Movie Talk … Continue reading
Film review | The Debt – Payback for a Nazi doctor. But should Mossad’s uneasy trio take the credit?
Former Mossad agents Rachel, Stefan and David are heroes in Israel for their roles in bringing down a Nazi war criminal, but was their long-ago mission really as clear-cut and triumphant as the history books relate? Based on the 2007 … Continue reading
Arthur – Russell Brand: fey, vain and just right for the part of a permanently wasted wastrel
Just as Depression-era audiences lapped up the screwball comedy antics of the idle rich, so did cinemagoers at the height of the early-1980s recession warm to the tipsy exploits of Dudley Moore’s drunken playboy Arthur. Now that we’re once more … Continue reading
Red – Retired, Extremely Dangerous (so not ready for the pipe and slippers just yet)
Adapted – and expanded – from a short, three-chapter-long graphic novel, Red is an action comedy romp that finds old-timers Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren having a ball on screen. In fact, it’s possible they had … Continue reading
Posted in DVD Releases, Reviews, The Best View
Tagged Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Knight and Day, Mary Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, red
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Couch Potato Pickings | The Witches, apathetic trick or treating, and the glory of older women
Happy Halloween! Back when I was a kid, my sister and I teamed up with our friend next door just before Halloween to post notes into every letterbox in our road. On these little letters we’d written a silly little … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Anjelica Huston, Dolly Parton, Helen Mirren, Jamie Lee Curtis, Meryl Streep, roald dahl, Susan Sarandon, The Witches
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Competition | Win exclusive Red goodie bags
This competition has now closed Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren team up on screen for the action comedy thriller Red, which hits cinemas this Friday – and we’ve teamed up with Entertainment One to give away … Continue reading
Posted in Competitions
Tagged Bruce Willis, Competition, Goodie Bag, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, red
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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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At the Cinema | The Last Station – Tolstoy’s last days played as tragi-comic romp
A lavish costume drama about the final months in the life of Leo Tolstoy, The Last Station treats the author’s end as a tragi-comedy, with the emphasis more on boisterous comedy than sombre tragedy. The result – directed by Michael … Continue reading
