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Who will win the 2013 Baftas?
Movie Talk is putting its reputation on the line and making a few brilliantly inspired predictions about who is going to be walking out of the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday night with a great big smile on their … Continue reading
Posted in 2013 Awards
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Anna Karenina, Argo, BAFTAS, Ben Affleck, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Day Lewis, Django Unchained, Elizabeth Olsen, Emmanuelle Riva, Helen Mirren, Hitchcock, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, les miserables, Lincoln, Marion Cotillard, Sally Field, Silver Linings Playbook, Skyfall, Steven Spielberg, Tommy Lee Jones, Zero Dark Thirty
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Film review | Hitchcock – Hopkins & Mirren turn Mr and Mrs Hitchcock into a breezy double act
Hard on the heels of Toby Jones’s impersonation of Alfred Hitchcock in BBC film The Girl, Anthony Hopkins offers us an alternative screen version of cinema’s Master of Suspense in director Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock. Where The Girl explored Hitchcock’s supposedly … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases, Reviews, The Best View
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Perkins, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Helen Mirren, Hitchcock, Janet Leigh, Marnie, Psycho, Sacha Gervasi, Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, The Birds, Tippi Hedren, Toby Jones, Vera Miles
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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Trivia: Arthur – not the 1st Gielgud-role gender-switch for Mirren
The 2011 comedy remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore film Arthur marks the second occasion that Helen Mirren has re-played a role formerly played by John Gielgud and reinterpreted it as a woman. In the 2011 Russell Brand movie, Mirren … Continue reading
Who won The Queen on Blu-ray?
Thanks to everyone who entered our competition to win a Blu-ray copy of The Queen starring Dame Helen Mirren as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We asked you who played Prime Minister Tony Blair and the correct answer is, of … Continue reading
Win The Queen starring Helen Mirren on Blu-ray
We’ve got Jubilee fever here at Movie Talk and to mark the occasion we’re waving our red, white and blue bunting and giving away three Blu-ray copies of the acclaimed film The Queen – starring Dame Helen Mirren as Her … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Knight and Day, Mary Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, red
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