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Tag Archives: Philadelphia
How to win an Oscar – some simple rules
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Regardless of how you might take Kate Winslet’s risqué tips on bagging that Academy Award, there are some simple rules to securing an Oscar. Let’s look at the … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 Awards, Couch Potato
Tagged A Single Man, Academy Awards, aileen wuornos, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Boy's Don't Cry, Braveheart, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Charlize Theron, Colin Firth, Crazy Heart, Daniel Day Lewis, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Taylor, Erin Brokovich, Extras, Forrest Gump, frankly my dear i don't give a damn, Geoffrey Rush, Gone With the Wind, Goodfellas, Hannibal Lecter, Harvey Milk, Heath Ledger, Helen Mirren, Hilary Swank, I Am Sam, i see dead people, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Maguire, Joan Fontaine, john wayne, Judi Dench, Julia Roberts, june carter cash, Kate Winslet, Kathryn Bigelow, life is beautiful, life is like a box of chocolates, Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Million Dollar Baby, monster, mrs brown, my left foot, my precious, Oscar, Peter Jackson, Philadelphia, Philip Seymour Hoffman, raging bull, Rain Man, ray, Ray Charles, Rebecca, Reese Witherspoon, Rosemary's Baby, ruth gordon, Scent of a Woman, Sean Penn, Shakespeare in Love, Shine, show me the money, Sixth Sense, suspicion, Taxi Driver, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, the lord of the rings: the return of the king, the lord of the rings: the two towers, the queen, The Silence of the Lambs, The Wrestler, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, true grit, Truman Capote, Walk the Line, who's afraid of virginia woolf, William Wallace, you talkin' to me
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Does Colin Firth have a point about the plight of gay actors?
Earlier this week A Single Man star and Oscar nominee Colin Firth voiced some long overdue statements about the problem that exists for gay actors in Hollywood. Click here for the full news story. “If you’re known as a straight … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV, News
Tagged A Single Man, alan cumming, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Colin Firth, Cynthia Nixon, Dennis Quaid, Far From Heaven, Four Weddings and a Funeral, gay actors, gay roles, Guy Pearce, Heath Ledger, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, Imagine Me and You, Infamous, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Wilby, John Leguizamo, jude law, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Lena Headey, Mamma Mia, Maurice, Meryl Streep, midnight in the garden of good and evil, Milk, My Best Friend's Wedding, nathan lane, Patrick Swayze, Philadelphia, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Piper Perabo, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Robin Williams, Rupert Everett, Sean Penn, simon callow, Stephen Fry, Terence Stamp, the birdcage, to wong foo thanks for everything julie newmar, Toby Jones, Tom Hanks, wesley snipes, wilde
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Couch Potato Pickings | Arthur, and a Music Quiz
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video If you get caught between the Moon and New York City The best that you can do …… The best that you can do is fall in love … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged an office and a gentlemen, arthur, arthur's theme, Breakfast at Tiffany's, christopher cross, Desperately Seeking Susan, dudley moore, everything i do i do it for you, Get Into the Groove, Ghost, Ghostbusters, Goldfinger, I Will Always Love You, Liza Minelli, mad max beyond thunderdome, moon river, Mrs Robinson, my heart will go on, Nine to Five, Philadelphia, robin hood prince of thieves, streets of philadelphia, take my breath away, the bodyguard, The Graduate, the grinch, Titanic, Top Gun, Unchained Melody, up where we belong, we don't need another hero
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Couch Potato Pickings | Brokeback Mountain: Why didn’t it win that Best Picture Oscar?
The other day I told a film critic friend of mine that I’d decided to do a post about Brokeback Mountain because it was going to be showing on TV within two days of Crash? (Come back on Monday for … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Alexander the Great, Ang Lee, Anne Hathaway, Annie Proulx, Best Picture Oscar, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Cole Porter, Crash, Hans Christian Andersen, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lawrence of Arabia, Michelangelo, Michelle Williams, Night and Day, Oscar snub, Philadelphia, TE Lawrence, The Aony and the Ecstasy
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Philadelphia
Couch Potato Pickings On Fiver tonight at 7.30pm Back in the late 1980s, early 1990s, everyone was sure that it wouldn’t be long before a cure for Aids would be found. It’s now 15 years since this film was made … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged AIDS, Denzel Washington, HIV, Philadelphia, Tom Hanks, World Aids Day
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