Tag Archives: Piper Perabo

Couch Potato Pickings | Carriers – a killer virus movie

In Carriers, a small group of travellers struggle to make it to the coast without succumbing to a killer virus that has ravaged the US. Films about viruses tend to focus on one of two things: – the horrors of … Continue reading

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Couch Potato’s Movie Wedding Album

How well did you do with my movie wedding picture quiz yesterday? Think you guessed them all correctly? Well, now you can find out. Here are the answers:

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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

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Couch Potato Pickings | Chick Flicks for a Girls’ Night In

A couple of days ago, I gave some thought to the ultimate chick flick… Pretty Woman? When Harry Met Sally? Mamma Mia? And then, sadly, Patrick Swayze died, and the news reports featured girls of all ages all declaring their … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Save the Last Dance, and other dancing movies

Pirouetting, toe-tapping, hoofing, gliding, stepping, strutting. Dance moves in the movies are certainly not in short supply. Ballet meets hip hop in tonight’s dancing drama where Julia Stiles plays a bereaved middle class teen who has her love for dance … Continue reading

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The (Ruby) Slipper and the Rose

Couch Potato Pickings On Five this afternoon at 2.15pm If you read my post yesterday you probably figured out that I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s Day. In fact, I find it a very unhealthy day.  If a person … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings – Coyote Ugly

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Coyote Ugly actually is a bar franchise in the USA. Entrepreneur Liliana Lovell founded the original Coyote Ugly bar in New York in 1993. Today there are bars … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings – The Cave

On Channel 4 tonight at 11.05pm You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I’ve just been reading on the IMDB about this monster film set in (surprise, surprise) caves in Romania. Check out this disturbing … Continue reading

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