Tag Archives: Michelle Pfeiffer

Win Johnny Depp comedy Dark Shadows on DVD!

Posted on 12 October 2012 by Adele Craciun

Tim Burton’s campy horror comedy DARK SHADOWS is released on Blu-ray and DVD on Monday 15 October. Johnny Depp plays a dandyish vampire who emerges from two centuries of entombment to find himself in the strange new world of 1972 … Continue reading →

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Film review | Dark Shadows – Johnny Depp camps it up again in Tim Burton’s chaotic vampire romp

Posted on 11 May 2012 by Jason Best

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are back for their eighth screen collaboration with campy horror comedy Dark Shadows and the result is very much what you’d expect from their previous outings: good on look and atmosphere, poor on plot and … Continue reading →

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Win a copy of Stardust on Blu-ray

Posted on 29 January 2010 by Jason Best

This competition has now closed.    A young man enters a magical kingdom to retrieve a falling star for his beloved in the fairytale comedy adventure Stardust, which comes out in a Blu-ray special edition on Monday 1st February. Directed by … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Grease 2

Posted on 21 June 2009 by Beth Williams

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video It’s a wonder how Michelle Pfeiffer managed to pursue a film career after starring in this shockingly bad sequel to the 1978 smash-hit  musical. Grease 2 is showing … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Sweet Home Alabama, and other films based on song titles

Posted on 17 June 2009 by Beth Williams

The classic 1974 song Sweet Home Alabama was a controversial response by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd to Southern Man and Alabama – two songs from the 1970s by Neil Young that express anti-southern sentiments. Read more about that here. Don’t expect any … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Chéri – Michelle Pfeiffer finds herself in another dangerous liaison

Posted on 8 May 2009 by Jason Best

Twenty-one years on, three of the key players behind the Oscar-winning Dangerous Liaisons have reunited for another lavish costume drama. And, incroyable mais vrai, it’s another tale of sexual intrigue in which two elegantly louche French sophisticates find that their … Continue reading →

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Dirty Dancing 2

Posted on 6 March 2009 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings On BBC1 tonight at 11.40pm Fans will always pay up to try and squeeze a little but more out of their favourite movie and unsurprisingly Dirty Dancing 2 (also known as Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights) did far … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings – Wolf

Posted on 24 October 2008 by Beth Williams

On E4 tonight at 11.10pm You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Do you know when the next full moon is? I bet you don’t, unless of course, you are a werewolf too… I find … Continue reading →

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