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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Shipmates… Disney’s swashbuckling fantasy-adventure franchise continues with this fourth instalment, which sees Captain Jack Sparrow taking to the high seas in search of the elusive Fountain of Youth. If you can see this, … Continue reading
Posted in Big Screen - Cinema Top 10
Tagged Attack the Block, Blitz, Chris Hemsworth, Fast Five, Hanna, Insidious, Iron Man 2, Jason Statham, Kenneth Branagh, Paranormal Activity, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Reese Witherspoon, Saoirse Ronan, The Lovely Bones, Thor, Water for Elephants
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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…
Thor Holding out for hero… Chris Hemsworth gets to flex his pecs as the titular hammer-weilding superhero in this Kenneth Branagh comic book adaptation. Fast Five Engine trouble… The high-octane Fast & Furious franchise continues as Dominic and his crew … Continue reading
Water for Elephants – Animal magnetism in the circus for Robert Pattinson & Reese Witherspoon
Robert Pattinson proves there’s life beyond Twilight’s vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen with this heady period romance based on the best-selling novel by Sara Gruen. He plays veterinary-school drop-out Jacob Jankowski, who takes to the road in the midst of the … Continue reading
Couch Potato’s Top 10 Country Music Movies
As promised – with Wednesday’s country-themed Name That Chest to mark the UK release of Country Strong this weekend – here is my Top 10 of country music movies: By the way, I’m leaving Country Strong out of this list, … Continue reading
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Tagged Chely Wright, Clint Eastwood, Coal Miner's Daughter, country strong, Crazy Heart, Dolly Parton, Down From the Mountain, glee, Gwyneth Paltrow, Honkytonk Man, Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange, Joaquin Phoenix, Love Can Build a Bridge, maggie gyllenhaal, Nashville, O Brother Where Art Thou, Reese Witherspoon, Rhinestone, Robert Altman, Shut Up and Sing, Sissy Spacek, Sweet Dreams, Sylvester Stallone, The Dixie Chicks, Walk the Line, Wish Me Away
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Couch Potato Pickings | Four Christmases – what can happen when bad weather affect travel plans
In Four Christmases, bad weather (fog to be precise) prevents a San Francisco couple (Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon) from jetting off on their annual Christmas getaway. So the pair find themselves forced to spend the holiday with their families. … Continue reading
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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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince It’s a kind of magic… Harry and his Hogwarts cohorts have to contend with a new potions teacher, Voldemort’s Death Eaters, and raging hormones in their sixth year at the School of Witchraft and … Continue reading
Posted in Small Screen - DVD Top 10
Tagged Abigail Breslin, Cameron Diaz, Christian Bale, Four Christmases, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, J J Abrams, My Sister’s Keeper, quentin tarantino, Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds, Sienna Miller, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, the hangover, The Proposal, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Vince Vaughn
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