Tag Archives: Mel Gibson

Film review | How I Spent My Summer Vacation – Mel gets his mojo back in a scuzzy Mexican prison

Disgraced star Mel Gibson makes a bid for box-office redemption by playing an out-an-out rogue in the scuzzy, darkly comic crime thriller How I Spent My Summer Vacation. First seen at the wheel of a hurtling getaway car, dressed in … Continue reading

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

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?

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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Film review | The Beaver – Talk to the Hand

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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Couch Potato Pickings | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome – Tina Turner and other singer/actresses

When you look up Tina Turner on Wikipedia, she’s described as a singer and an actress. Now, of course that’s not incorrect. Tina has starred in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome – that post-apocalyptic action thriller sequel co-starring Mel Gibson. She … Continue reading

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Couch Potato’s eight short notes about Amadeus

  1. Big wigs abound in this 1984 movie adaptation of popular stage play Amadeus, set in 18th-century Vienna. 2. It’s the tale of the bitter and twisted court composer Antonio Salieri (F Murray Abraham) and his battle of wills … Continue reading

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News Hound | Mel Gibson has very officially lost the plot (again and again and again)

News Hound sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – so you don’t have to get your paws dirty… Mel Gibson is hardly known as a saint, what with his history of … Continue reading

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

The Princess and the Frog Wet kiss… Set in the lively French Quarter of New Orleans in the Twenties, this traditional 2D Disney animation charts the fortunes – and misfortunes – of hardworking young waitress Tiana after her fateful kiss … Continue reading

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans – Acting Crazy

Some actors are just really good at going all out and channeling their inner crazy. The latest one to be brilliantly screen insane is Nicolas Cage as corrupt-cop-with-a-habit Terence McDonagh in Werner Herzog‘s NOT remake Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call … Continue reading

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The Best Apocalyptic Movies – Couch Potato investigates

I’ve  been giving some thought to apocalyptic movies this week. I guess that suggest what sort of mood I’ve been in – probably something to do with a nasty bout of food poisoning at the weekend. Anyway, I’ve been attempting … Continue reading

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