Tag Archives: Joaquin Phoenix

Couch Potato’s Tuesday Trivia – Walk the Line and Johnny Cash’s favourite film

While making the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, director and co-writer James Mangold had numerous conversations with the troubled country star to get inside his head and understand what it was that haunted him throughout his life. Apparently, during … Continue reading

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Couch Potato’s Top 10 Country Music Movies

As promised – with Wednesday’s country-themed Name That Chest to mark the UK release of Country Strong this weekend – here is my Top 10 of country music movies: By the way, I’m leaving Country Strong out of this list, … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Ponders | How would the film industry differ if lying didn’t exist?

The Ricky Gervais movie The Invention of Lying is the reason why I’m asking this question. This film is set in a world where everybody tells the truth, and sheds a very witty and clever light on the way our … Continue reading

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News Hound | Gwynnie Paltrow and Justin Trousersnake swap careers

 It seems that Joaquin Phoenix’s puzzling career change has inspired others to dabble. Gwyneth Paltrow has just recorded a country music track called Country Strong for an upcoming movie (with the same name), where she plays down-and-out country star Kelly … Continue reading

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News Hound | Mel Gibson has very officially lost the plot (again and again and again)

News Hound sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – so you don’t have to get your paws dirty… Mel Gibson is hardly known as a saint, what with his history of … Continue reading

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News Muse – London Premiere of 17 Again

Last night, I went to the premiere of Zac Efron‘s latest movie 17 Again, co-starring Matthew Perry and Leslie Mann. Remember when I got caught up in the Twilight premiere? Add more, many many more, shrieking pre-teen and teenage girls … Continue reading

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News Muse – it’s all about the actors

Last week, News Muse was speculating over whether Joaquin Phoenix had lost the plot or if there was some method to his madness. Well, not to my surprise, the Artist Formerly Known As Reatively Normal has the world as his … Continue reading

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News Muse – From hero to zero: the rapper formerly known as the actor Joaquin Phoenix

It started last October with Joaquin Phoenix’s shock announcement that he was retiring from acting to pursue a music career: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video (Is it just me, or does the man … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings – Walk the Line

This brilliantly acted, award winning biopic of Johnny Cash offers a moving picture of his passionate relationship with June Carter, as well as an exhilarating portrait of the country music scene in the 1950s and 1960s . And with its … Continue reading

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