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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
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
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
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV, Seasonal
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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Couch Potato Pickings | Titanic, and other fact-based disaster movies
Is it just me, or has it been difficult to avoid the 9/11 programming on TV in the UK this week? As recent years have shown, when the anniversary of the 2001 September 11th atrocities approaches, the schedules respond. … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings | The Player, and movie cameos
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Do you have a favourite movie cameo moment? It’s the slew of cameos from dozens of stars that make this Robert Altman satire on Hollywood the memorable movie … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Abba, Alfred Hitchcock, Austin Powers Goldmember, Baywatch, Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Bruce Willis, Burt Reynolds, cameos, Cher, Danny DeVito, David Hasselhoff, Dolly Parton, Erin Brokovich, Extras, George Michael, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hulk, Julia Roberts, Kate Winslet, Kevin Spacey, Lou Ferrigno, Miss Congeniality 2, Peter Jackson, Ricky Gervais, Robert Altman, Sandra Bullock, The Odyssey, The Player, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Tom Cruise
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The Best view | Frozen River – Melissa Leo keeps it real in gripping blue-collar thriller
Melissa Leo. Who? No idea? I thought as much. If, though, the name of this 48-year-old American actress does ring a faint bell it’s probably because she was the odd one out among this year’s Oscar nominees; the little known, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases, The Best View
Tagged 21 Grams, Angelina Jolie, Anne Hathaway, Changeling, Courtney Hunt, Doubt, Frozen River, Homicide Life on the Streets, Kate Winslet, Melissa Leo, Meryl Streep, Misty Upham, Mohawk, Oscars, St Lawrence river, The Reader, Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
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