Tag Archives: Michael Sheen

Frost/Nixon Competition Winners

Our competition to win a copy of the highly acclaimed Frost/Nixon on DVD is now closed. Thanks to Universal Pictures for supplying the prizes. And well done to all our entrants who answered correctly that Watergate is the name of … Continue reading

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Win a copy of Frost/Nixon on DVD

This competition has now closed.  Acting titans Michael Sheen and Frank Langella go head to head in the highly acclaimed Frost/Nixon, which comes out on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday 18th May.  Directed by Ron Howard, the film is the … Continue reading

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Out on DVD | Frost/Nixon

Michael Sheen pulls off another of his uncanny impersonations of famous people in this big-screen version of Peter Morgan’s hit play about David Frost’s historic 1977 TV interview with disgraced former US president Richard Nixon. At the time, most people … Continue reading

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

Knowing Number cruncher… Nicholas Cage plays an astrophysicist who decodes a page of numbers that predict a host of disasters. Marley & Me Canine catastrophe… Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson play a married couple whose lives are turned around by … Continue reading

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The Best view | The Damned United

What is it with Michael Sheen and famous people? His uncanny, chameleon-like ability to play celebs on screen has already seen him get inside the skin of Tony Blair (in The Deal and The Queen), Kenneth Williams (in Fantabulosa! and … Continue reading

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News Hound | 25 March 2009

Movie Talk sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – because we like to stick our noses into it… Tom Selleck has joined the cast of action comedy Five Killers as the … Continue reading

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At the Cinema | Frost/Nixon

Ron Howard has skilfully opened out Peter Morgan’s hit play based on the historic 1977 TV interview by British TV personality David Frost (played by Michael Sheen) and disgraced former US president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella), but he’s kept the … Continue reading

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News Muse – Anne Hathaway* is getting married

Ha! I bet that headline made you read on. And wouldn’t it be a scoop, especially after poor Annie’s split from her money laundering fraudster boyfriend Raffaello Follieri (never trust a guy with that many consonants in his name), which … Continue reading

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BFI 52nd London Film Festival – The Best view from the red carpet at the Frost/Nixon World Premiere

  If you are a ‘civilian’, to use Liz Hurley’s notorious description of the non-famous, then attending a movie premiere is a strange experience. At last night’s gala screening of Frost/Nixon, the London Film Festival’s opening film, I rolled along … Continue reading

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BFI 52nd London Film Festival – Stars in Leicester Square… and above Nelson’s Column

There are just seven days to go before this year’s Times BFI London Film Festival gets underway with the world premiere of Frost/Nixon, the screen version of Peter Morgan’s hit play about the historic 1977 encounter between disgraced US president … Continue reading

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