Tag Archives: Michael Caine

DVD review | The Dark Knight Rises – Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy comes to an epic conclusion

Posted on 3 December 2012 by Jason Best

Christopher Nolan brings his epic Batman trilogy to an awesome conclusion with The Dark Knight Rises, giving Christian Bale’s brooding vigilante superhero one last hurrah against the forces of anarchy and chaos that invariably beset Gotham City. Eight years have … Continue reading →

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Thought for the Day from Michael Caine drama Kidnapped

Posted on 2 December 2012 by Adele Craciun

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video “You’ve not been very lucky with your relatives, have you?  All the more reason to be choosy with your friends.” Kidnapped (1971) Share this thought for the day … Continue reading →

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Film review | Gambit – Colin Firth & Cameron Diaz try to peddle a fake (by the way, the script’s the forgery)

Posted on 20 November 2012 by Jason Best

Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz and Alan Rickman team up for a very loose remake of Ronald Neame’s breezy 1966 caper thriller Gambit, the light-hearted but intricately plotted heist movie in which Michael Caine’s cockney crook drafts Shirley MacLaine’s Eurasian nightclub … Continue reading →

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Viennale 2012 – The 50th Vienna Film Festival

Posted on 17 November 2012 by Jason Best

Going to Vienna for the city’s annual autumnal film festival, the Viennale, is like stepping back in time. That could be because of all the Belle Epoque palaces lining the Ringstrasse, or the Jugendstil metro stations, or because the entire … Continue reading →

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Film review | The Dark Knight Rises – Class war comes to Gotham as Nolan sends Batman out with a bang

Posted on 19 July 2012 by Jason Best

Christopher Nolan brings his epic Batman trilogy to an awesome conclusion with The Dark Knight Rises, giving Christian Bale’s brooding vigilante superhero one last hurrah against the forces of anarchy and chaos that invariably beset Gotham City. To begin with, … Continue reading →

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Name That Chest: This star turns 50 today

Posted on 21 March 2012 by Beth Williams

Check out this confused clashing jacket scenario. The mystery star played a high school teen in this 80s coming-of-age movie. Any ideas? Who was the owner of the mystery chest last week? Well, it was another birthday boy – a … Continue reading →

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Film review | Journey 2: The Mysterious Island – Duck! The Rock is coming at you in 3D!

Posted on 3 February 2012 by Jason Best

An old-fashioned adventure romp that wraps newfangled cinematic trickery around a ramshackle plot, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is a knockabout sequel to 2008’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, notable at the time for being the first feature … Continue reading →

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A Movie Night to Remember: The Man Who Would Be King in Macon, Georgia

Posted on 24 April 2011 by heidi

So I have the honour of kicking off a brand new Movie Talk series featuring some of our favourite movie-going memories… A Movie Night to Remember. And as today is Easter Sunday, I think it only proper that I reminisce … Continue reading →

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Win Michael Caine’s new autobiography – The Elephant to Hollywood

Posted on 1 October 2010 by Movie Talk

This competition has now closed To celebrate the release of Michael Caine’s autobiography, The Elephant to Hollywood, we are giving away copies to ten lucky readers. It’s an extraordinary rags-to-riches story as the veteran actor describes how he went from … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings: Womanisers and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Posted on 21 May 2010 by Beth Williams

The title say it all really. Matthew McConaughey plays a serial womaniser in a (somewhat clumsy but watchable)) romcom spin on Charles Dickens‘ classic festive tale, A Christmas Carol. Will filmmakers ever tire of adapting this literary classic? Probably not. … Continue reading →

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