Tag Archives: Helen Mirren

Couch Potato Pickings | Inkheart, and other movies based on children’s books

Posted on 12 December 2009 by Beth Williams

Meggie (Eliza Bennett) is a 12-year-old girl who plunges into a world of storybook adventure after discovering that her father (Brendan Fraser) can literally read the characters out of novels. When a rare title called Inkheart enters their hands, a … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | State of Play

Posted on 21 September 2009 by Jason Best

Gripping political thriller State of Play marked a confident Hollywood debut for Oscar-winning British documentary maker turned feature-film director Kevin Macdonald. Currently shooting a film of Rosemary Sutcliff’s classic children’s novel The Eagle of the Ninth, Macdonald did a good … Continue reading →

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The Best view | State of Play – Stop Press: The Journalist Is Still a Hollywood Hero

Posted on 24 April 2009 by Jason Best

From His Girl Friday to All the President’s Men, some of Hollywood’s best movies (and my favourites, too) have been set in the ink-stained world of newspapers, a setting with its own grubby glamour, its own mystique, and an inherent … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Gosford Park

Posted on 21 March 2009 by Beth Williams

On Channel 4 tonight at 9pm As someone who struggles to remember names and faces, I’m so glad that so many stars were cast in this Robert Altman upstairs downstairs period comedy with the whodunit storyline. All those familiar faces … Continue reading →

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The Mother and sexy sirens over 60

Posted on 19 November 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings James Bond gets it on with Jean from Dinnerladies. It’s hardly a casting director’s dream, but this film shows that great acting can knock the socks off even the most hotly anticipated cinematic pairings (a la Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Caligula on DVD

Posted on 6 October 2008 by Jason Best

It’s one of the most notorious films of the 1970s: a multi-million-dollar historical epic about the infamously decadent Roman emperor that boasted a script by novelist Gore Vidal, lavish sets by an Oscar-winning designer and a cast of distinguished British … Continue reading →

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