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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Teaser: Which 3000 Miles to Graceland star has been channelling Elvis throughout his career?

Posted on 15 November 2011 by Beth Williams

In the 2001 film 3000 Miles to Graceland, Kevin Costner, Christian Slater, David Arquette, Bokeem Woodbine and Kurt Russell star as Elvis impersonators involved in a Las Vegas bank robbery. But for Russell, this wasn’t the first time he’d channelled … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Trivia: The Bodyguard was almost a 1970s film

Posted on 28 June 2011 by Beth Williams

The Bodyguard is a romantic thriller very much associated with the early 90s (as is its chart-topping soundtrack). But did you know that the film’s concept was originally proposed in the mid-70s? Diana Ross was cast as the lead, and … Continue reading →

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True Grit – The Dude fills the Duke’s boots for straight-shooting Coens

Posted on 11 February 2011 by Jason Best

Jeff Bridges steps into John Wayne’s oversize boots to play the larger-than-life role of whiskey-soaked, one-eyed marshal Rooster Cogburn in the Coen Brothers’ Western True Grit. Rapturously received in the US by critics and public alike, the Coens’ film sticks … Continue reading →

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Robin Hood – The legendary outlaw, before he became a myth

Posted on 20 September 2010 by Jason Best

Ridley Scott’s revisionist take on the Robin Hood story is a long way from Errol Flynn’s swashbuckling hero or Kevin Costner’s Prince of Thieves, and even further from the merry outlaw of legend. This is Robin Hood before he became … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | The Five Most Annoying Songs from Movies

Posted on 7 August 2010 by Beth Williams

1. Everything I Do, I Do it For You from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. This Bryan Adams ballad remained at the number one spot in the UK for 16 weeks. It’s hardly surprising then that so many of us … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Robin Hood – Russell Crowe & Ridley Scott take on the legendary hero

Posted on 14 May 2010 by Jason Best

Ridley and Russell gave us a sword-and-toga spectacle a decade ago with Gladiator; now they’ve come up with a bow-and-tabard epic – but though there’s much to enjoy in their Robin Hood, the film is unlikely to snatch equal box-office … Continue reading →

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The Best view – Swing Vote

Posted on 26 September 2008 by Jason Best

With the American presidential race getting scarier by the day, surely only the savage iconoclasm of Hunter S Thompson could do justice to the election’s madness and mendacity. Just imagine the ferocious spleen the author of

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