Tag Archives: Leonardo DiCaprio

Win Quentin Tarantino Western Django Unchained on Blu-ray!

Django Unchained, the action-packed, Oscar-winning Spaghetti Western from writer/director Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) is coming out on Blu-ray and DVD with UltraViolet on Monday 20th May. Django Unchained is a classic Tarantino revenge story about a slave (Jamie Foxx) who, … Continue reading

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Film review | The Great Gatsby – Baz Luhrmann gives Gatsby glitz but true class is missing

Baz Luhrmann’s much-hyped adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is everything you’d expect: brash, glitzy and bursting with the director’s trademark razzle-dazzle. If Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age classic is the Great American Novel, then this frantically jazzed-up 3D film … Continue reading

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DVD review | The Great Gatsby – Solid TV movie version of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age classic

Chosen as this year’s Cannes opener, Baz Luhrmann’s new adaptation of The Great Gatsby is days away from its first public airing. So it’s a timely moment for the DVD release of the BBC/Granada TV movie version of F Scott … Continue reading

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Name That Chest: From one historical epic to another

This chest is easy to name! But did you identify the bloke in the soggy shirt last week? It was of course Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, here pictured with co-star Kate Winslet. DiCaprio’s latest movie Django Unchained came out in … Continue reading

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

American Pie: Reunion Last slice… Nine years on from their last big-screen outing, the original American Pie characters get together for a raucous school reunion. Expect sexual shenanigans and drunken debauchery. If you can see this, then you might need … Continue reading

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Thought for the Day from Titanic

“I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You don’t know what hand you’re gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you… to make each day count.” Titanic (1997) James … Continue reading

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

Titanic 3D Sinking feeling… James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster returns to the big screen – only this time Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet’s fates are sealed in 3D! If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade … Continue reading

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The Top Ten Bad Date Movies for Valentine’s Day

Because we adore romance here at Movie Talk, and because we wouldn’t want any of you to make a love-life-threatening faux pas on Valentine’s Day, we’ve compiled a handy top ten list — with the help of some of our … Continue reading

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Film review | J Edgar – Clint and Leo’s warts’n'all study of FBI boss Hoover: one for the waxworks museum

Leonardo DiCaprio puts his pin-up days well and truly behind him to play notorious FBI chief J Edgar Hoover from youthful idealist to paranoid old age in Clint Eastwood’s solid but stodgy biopic J Edgar. It’s not a flattering portrait. Playing … Continue reading

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Top 10 Worst Accents in Movies

It doesn’t matter how famous a Hollywood actor you are, if the accent ain’t right, it’s just plain obvious. Our guest writer Sabrina Dougall from London shares her top 10 worst accent imitations in cinema: 1. Dick van Dyke (Bert/Mr. … Continue reading

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