Tag Archives: New Orleans

Film review | Bullet to the Head – Action vets Walter Hill & Sly Stallone team up for a bruising buddy movie

Posted on 31 January 2013 by Jason Best

Thirty years after giving us 48 Hrs’ mismatched buddy duo, veteran director Walter Hill delivers another ill-suited cop-crook pairing in Bullet to the Head – a brisk, lean, straight-shooting throwback to the world of 1980s action thrillers. The film even … Continue reading →

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Bad Lieutenant | Brilliantly twisted – Nicolas Cage’s bad cop is in good company

Posted on 27 September 2010 by Jason Best

  Nicolas Cage has long been a Movie Talk favourite – not least because of his gung-ho zeal to go that extra mile when it comes to delivering totally whacked-out film roles. He doesn’t go quite so far as eat … Continue reading →

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Win Bad Lieutenant on DVD

Posted on 23 September 2010 by Jason Best

This competition has now closed Two of modern cinema’s greatest mavericks take a walk on the wild side with the darkly comic, distinctly offbeat crime thriller Bad Lieutenant – directed by the great Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage at … Continue reading →

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The Princess and the Frog – Disney heroine breaks through the colour barrier

Posted on 21 June 2010 by Jason Best

Disney broke the mould this year by casting its first African-American heroine in The Princess and the Frog – even if she does spend most of the movie as a frog. A green protagonist is not, I think, what most … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Disney’s The Princess and the Frog

Posted on 28 January 2010 by heidi

  Hallelujah! Disney studios are finally back to what they do best… As I’m one of those poor suckers who paid good money to see the CGI mess that was Chicken Little and then had to sit through it too … Continue reading →

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Nicolas Cage is certainly a bad lieutenant but is Mariah Carey really a good actress?

Posted on 25 November 2009 by Adele Craciun

News Hound sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – because there’s nothing like a juicy bone to get you through the day… Nicolas Cage’s black comedy Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: boring or brilliant?

Posted on 10 July 2009 by Beth Williams

I was put off from seeing this film when it came out at the cinema because loads of people told me it was boring and overlong. Well, I wouldn’t say it’s boring but it is indeed overlong – 166 minutes … Continue reading →

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Competition winners

Posted on 25 June 2009 by Jason Best

Our competition to win a copy of the DVD of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, along with a soundtrack and coffee table book about the film, is now closed. Thanks to Warner Bros. for supplying the prizes. And well … Continue reading →

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