Tag Archives: Jodie Foster

DVD review | Carnage – Middle-class manners turn nasty for Winslet, Waltz, Foster & Reilly

Posted on 16 June 2012 by Jason Best

Two middle-class couples meet on polite terms to patch up a playground scuffle between their respective sons and end up verbally tearing lumps out of one another in Carnage, Roman Polanski’s wickedly satirical screen adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s hit stage … Continue reading →

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Posted on 8 February 2012 by Dean & Ellen

Chronicle Power outage… With great power comes no responsibility in this fly-on-the-wall-style sci-fi fantasy about three teenagers who mysteriously gain superhuman abilities. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install … Continue reading →

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Film review | Carnage – It isn’t pretty when the mask of politeness slips

Posted on 3 February 2012 by Jason Best

Human nature red-in-tooth-and-claw is stripped bare in Carnage, Roman Polanski’s darkly comic screen adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s hit stage play God of Carnage, a wickedly satirical four-hander in which two ostensibly well-mannered middle-class couples meet on polite terms to patch … Continue reading →

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Win The Beaver – literally! Hand-puppet and DVDs up for grabs

Posted on 10 October 2011 by Adele Craciun

THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED! PLEASE LOOK OUT ON OUR FACEBOOK WALL FOR ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WINNERS. IT COULD BE YOU! To celebrate the DVD release of ace dark comedy The Beaver, out today, we have managed to get our … Continue reading →

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DVD review | The Beaver — Mel as a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Seriously?

Posted on 10 October 2011 by heidi

An actor famous for his highly public personal meltdown plays a character going through a highly public personal meltdown in offbeat comedy drama The Beaver which gets its DVD & Blu-ray release this week. Mel Gibson is, of course, the … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Teaser: Which star of Flightplan had a real life fear of flying?

Posted on 4 October 2011 by Beth Williams

The 2005 thriller Flightplan tells the story of a recently bereaved aeronautical engineer Kyle (Jodie Foster) who falls asleep while taking a flight with her young daughter, Julia (Marlene Lawston), only to wake up to find Julia gone – and … Continue reading →

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Posted on 24 June 2011 by Ellen

Kung Fu Panda 2 Bear necessities… Jack Black’s high-kicking panda gets into more high jinks in a sequel to the hit cartoon comedy. Green Lantern Green energy… Ryan Reynolds acquires super powers beyond imagining and an exceptionally tight emerald body … Continue reading →

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Film review | The Beaver – Talk to the Hand

Posted on 17 June 2011 by Jason Best

An actor famous for his highly public personal meltdown plays a character going through a highly public personal meltdown in offbeat comedy drama The Beaver. Mel Gibson is, of course, the star and, if you can put aside his private … Continue reading →

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Great 70s movies that have stood the test of time

Posted on 30 March 2010 by Beth Williams

I had a reunion with a much-loved pair of flared jeans the other day while having a wardrobe spring clean. They’re not from the 70s – I was a kid then so I’d never fit into those. No, these were … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings: Crime and Justice movies for Inside Justice Week

Posted on 17 October 2009 by Beth Williams

People are fascinated by crime and justice aren’t they? You just have to look at the amount of films and TV programmes devoted to the subject. Personally, I’m a glutton for Wire in the Blood, Trial and Retribution, and Waking … Continue reading →

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