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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
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
Posted in DVD Releases, DVD Reviews
Tagged Anton Yelchin, DVD Releases, DVD Reviews, Jodie Foster, Mel Gibson, The Beaver
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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
Posted in Cinema Releases, Reviews, The Best View
Tagged Anton Yelchin, Jodie Foster, Mel Gibson, The Beaver
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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
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Amadeus, F Murray Abraham, Falco, Jon McEnroe, Kenneth Branagh, Mel Gibson, Mick Jagger, Rock Me Amadeus, Salieri, Tim Curry, Tom Hu;lce, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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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
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
Posted in Small Screen - DVD Top 10
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, avatar, Clint Eastwood, Edge of Darkness, Invictus, jude law, Mel Gibson, Paranormal Activity, Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes, Sigourney WeaverDenzel Washington, The Hurt Locker, The Princess and the Frog, the twilight saga: new moon, Tim Burton
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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
Posted in Cinema Releases
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, american psycho, analyze this, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, bringing out the dead, cape fear, captain jack sparrow, castor troy, charlie and the chocolate factory, Christian Bale, face/off, fear and loathing in las vegas, frank pierce, Heath Ledger, jack byrnes, Jack Nicholson, jack torrance, Johnny Depp, klaus kinski, lethal weapon, max cady, meet the fockers, meet the parents, Mel Gibson, Nicolas Cage, patrick bateman, paul vitti, Pirates of the Caribbean, raoul duke, Robert De Niro, sailor ripley, sgt martin riggs, Taxi Driver, terence mcdonagh, The Dark Knight, The Joker, The Shining, travis bickle, werner herzog, wild at heart, willy wonka
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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
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged 28 Days Later, a boy and his dog, apocalyptic movies, ava gardner, Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, bruno lawrence, Charlton Heston, Children of Men, Clive Owen, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Fred Astaire, George A Romero, Gregory Peck, I Am Legend, Julianne Moore, Living Dead, Mad Max, mad max beyond the thunderdome, Mel Gibson, Night of the Living Dead, on the beach, the omega man, the quiet earth, The Road, Tina Turner, twelve monkeys, Viggo Mortensen, Will Smith
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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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