Tag Archives: High School Musical

Film review | The Lucky One – Former teen idol Zac Efron is all grown up but keeps the boyish charm

Now sporting bristly stubble and a buff body, Zac Efron has come a long way from his carefree High School Musical days, but even though he’s playing a troubled Iraq war veteran in this glossy romance based on a Nicholas … Continue reading

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DVD review | Beastly – Beauty and the Beast gets a glossy modern makeover

The Beauty and the Beast fairy tale gets a glossy 21st-century makeover in Beastly, a teen romantic fantasy starring I Am Number Four hunk Alex Pettyfer and High School Musical’s chirpy sweetheart Vanessa Hudgens. Pettyfer plays obnoxious New York preppie … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Is Glee better than High School Musical?

How much better is Glee than High School Musical? Not surprisingly Glee, the latest US TV sensation, has been compared to tweeny Disney hit High School Musical more than once or twice on the worldwide web. It is probably unfair … Continue reading

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At the Cinema | Me and Orson Welles

  Set over the course of one week in November 1937, Me and Orson Welles is a charming coming-of-age drama in which a stage-struck 17-year-old school kid – winningly played by High School Musical star Zac Efron – has a … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | High School Musical – what’s all the fuss about?

Since it burst onto screens in 2006, I’ve managed to sidestep this cult Disney phenomenon. It wasn’t difficult. I don’t have anybody in my life born after 1990. (You under fives don’t count – no doubt you’ll have your own … Continue reading

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News Muse – Food glorious food

The weather really hasn’t been on our side this summer. So sticky and humid, and cloudy. It’s like Florida without the sunshine or the alligators, or Dexter. But imagine if each time it rained, it would result in a heavenly … Continue reading

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The Best view | 17 Again

You can only return to the well so many times until you need to dig a new one. So runs the old saying. It is not a phrase that has ever been uttered in Hollywood, where 17 Again is the … Continue reading

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Out on DVD | Camp – Offbeat movie musical

Getting a DVD re-release today in a bid to hitch a ride on the High School Musical bandwagon is the offbeat 2003 musical Camp. The DVD packaging plays up the similarities (“If you like High School Musical, you’ll love this,” … Continue reading

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Dirty Dancing 2

Couch Potato Pickings On BBC1 tonight at 11.40pm Fans will always pay up to try and squeeze a little but more out of their favourite movie and unsurprisingly Dirty Dancing 2 (also known as Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights) did far … Continue reading

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News Muse – Attack of the Body Swappers: The Remake

News Muse has on a previous occasion moaned about the apalling lack of new ideas in the Hollywood film industry. And scouring the news stories this week only confirms this sad fact: Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro are teaming … Continue reading

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