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Film review | Contagion – An all-star disaster movie to send chills down your spine
With clinical precision and chilling plausibility, Steven Soderbergh’s compelling disaster movie Contagion depicts the terrifying progress of a deadly virus as it wreaks havoc around the globe. First off, Gwyneth Paltrow’s blithe executive picks up the lurgi in Hong Kong. … Continue reading
Couch Potato’s Tuesday Trivia: The Holiday and an impromptu cameo
There’s an amusing scene in this house swap romcom in which Kate Winslet‘s Iris visits a video rental store in LA with film composer Miles (Jack Black) who takes her on a musical tour through the titles on display. You … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Dustin Hoffman, Jack Black, Kate Winslet, Mrs Robinson, Nancy Meyers, Simon & Garfunkel, The Graduate, The Holiday
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Name That Chest: A Hollywood legend who has 65 costume changes in this film
And she’ll be featuring in my Top Women in the World of Film list next Tuesday to celebrate the International Women’s Day Centenary. A necklace was the clue to last week’s mystery chest. Click here to find out the film … Continue reading
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Tagged International Women's Day Centenary, Kate Winslet, Titanic
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Couch Potato Wedges – Dipping into some lesser-known Love Actually trivia
Teaser: Love Actually features the lead actors from another well-known movie. I’ll leave you pondering that thought. More on that later… Cameos Can you name all of the Love Actually cameos? No doubt you can reel off Claudia Schiffer, Rowan … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Rickman, Anne Reid, Ant & Dec, Bean, Bernard, billy bob thornton, Blackadder, Bridget Jones's Diary, Claudia Schiffer, David Hague, Denise Richards, Dominic McHale, Emma Thompson, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Frances de la Tour, Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Grant, Jeanne Moreau, Jo Whiley, Julia Roberts, Kate Winslet, Kris Marshall, Liam Neeson, Love Actually, Michael Parkinson, Notting Hill, Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson, Ruby Turner, Sandra Oh, Sense and Sensibility, Shannon Elizabeth, The Boat That Rocked, The Vicar of Dibley, Thomas Sangster, Titanic, William Wadham
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How to win an Oscar – some simple rules
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Regardless of how you might take Kate Winslet’s risqué tips on bagging that Academy Award, there are some simple rules to securing an Oscar. Let’s look at the … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 Awards, Couch Potato
Tagged A Single Man, Academy Awards, aileen wuornos, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Boy's Don't Cry, Braveheart, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Charlize Theron, Colin Firth, Crazy Heart, Daniel Day Lewis, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Taylor, Erin Brokovich, Extras, Forrest Gump, frankly my dear i don't give a damn, Geoffrey Rush, Gone With the Wind, Goodfellas, Hannibal Lecter, Harvey Milk, Heath Ledger, Helen Mirren, Hilary Swank, I Am Sam, i see dead people, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Maguire, Joan Fontaine, john wayne, Judi Dench, Julia Roberts, june carter cash, Kate Winslet, Kathryn Bigelow, life is beautiful, life is like a box of chocolates, Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Million Dollar Baby, monster, mrs brown, my left foot, my precious, Oscar, Peter Jackson, Philadelphia, Philip Seymour Hoffman, raging bull, Rain Man, ray, Ray Charles, Rebecca, Reese Witherspoon, Rosemary's Baby, ruth gordon, Scent of a Woman, Sean Penn, Shakespeare in Love, Shine, show me the money, Sixth Sense, suspicion, Taxi Driver, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, the lord of the rings: the return of the king, the lord of the rings: the two towers, the queen, The Silence of the Lambs, The Wrestler, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, true grit, Truman Capote, Walk the Line, who's afraid of virginia woolf, William Wallace, you talkin' to me
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Couch Potato Pickings | Changeling – are true crime movies more powerful than fictional ones?
If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. It is of course difficult to say whether true crime movies are … Continue reading
Sly gets busted up, Gerard gets off and Sam Mendes goes into Bondage (maybe)
News Hound’s stand-in Houndette sniffs out some astounding New Year’s stories on the internet and keeps you in the frame. Sam Mendes, the director of deep-thinking dramas such as Revolutionary Road and American Beauty, shocked the movie world – and … Continue reading
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Tagged Gerard Butler, Kate Winslet, Sam Mendes, Sylvester Stallone
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Couch Potato Pickings | A Christmas Carol Top 10
For me, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without viewing at least one movie version of A Christmas Carol. You know the story – a miserly grump is visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve and learns the errors of his ways. … Continue reading
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Tagged a beautiful day, a carol christmas, A Christmas Carol, a christmas carol - the musical, Albert Finney, alistair sim, an all dogs christmas carol, Bill Murray, Charles Dickens, ebenezer scrooge, Father Christmas, Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, kelsey grammer, Michael Caine, Nicolas Cage, Patrick Stewart, Richard E Grant, saskia reeves, Scrooge, scrooge - a christmas carol, scrooged, simon callow, thank you very much, the muppet christmas carol, the muppets, tiny tim, tori spelling, what if?
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