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DVD review | The Great Gatsby – Solid TV movie version of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age classic

Chosen as this year’s Cannes opener, Baz Luhrmann’s new adaptation of The Great Gatsby is days away from its first public airing. So it’s a timely moment for the DVD release of the BBC/Granada TV movie version of F Scott … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top 10 at the cinema…

Wreck-It Ralph Out of the game… Disney’s latest animation, which follows the misadventures of an arcade game villain as he bids to become a hero, features the voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman and Jane Lynch. If you can … Continue reading

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Film review | This Is 40 – Judd Apatow’s mid-life crisis is no laughing matter

A spin-off from Judd Apatow’s raunchy rom-com hit Knocked Up, This Is 40 catches up with two of the earlier film’s sidekicks, Leslie Mann’s Debbie and Paul Rudd’s Paul, as they approach the watershed birthday of the title. Married with … Continue reading

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DVD review | Wanderlust – Paul Rudd & Jennifer Aniston discover the joys of hippie living

This good-humoured satirical comedy begins with Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston’s stressed-out couple, George and Linda, fleeing New York after being hit by the recession (he’s lost his Wall Street job and HBO has turned down her documentary on penguins … Continue reading

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Dinner for Schmucks is a slapstick feast with no portion control: Couch Potato Pickings

This comedy starring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd is a bull in a china shop American remake of the French movie Le Diner de cons. Rudd stars as Tim – a mid-level corporate executive who gets a chance for promotion … Continue reading

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If it stars Jennifer Aniston, it must be a romcom.

Couch Potato Pickings These days, if you see Jennifer Aniston‘s name billed, you don’t have to ask about the movie, do you? You just know it’s going to be a romcom. She is undoubtedly the rom com queen of the … Continue reading

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Win prehistoric comedy Year One on Blu-ray

  Jack Black and Michael Cera are going back to the dawns of time and getting hairy… or is that lairy… in the new prehistoric comedy Year One, which rolls onto DVD and Blu-ray on Monday 2nd November 2009. As … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Clueless – how clueless are you?

On Film4 today at 1pm Which Clueless character do I most resemble? Cher? Hello! Fashion obsessed? I’m so over that. Dionne? As if! I’m not that cool. Yeah, so I’m like Tai, whatever! Click here to find out which Clueless … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Say It Isn’t Something About Her Dead Body Chuck

Hmm, I was hoping for a good laugh this evening to finish off the weekend but it looks like I’ll have to leave my couch and find something other than the TV to give me the giggles. It’s not that … Continue reading

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News Hound | 25 February 2009

Movie Talk sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the juiciest showbiz news – so you don’t end up barking up the wrong tree… Internet rumours about Madonna doing the soundtrack for Twilight sequel New Moon … Continue reading

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