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Couch Potato Pickings | Hachi: A Dog’s Tale – What will happen if you watch this movie?
If you’re an animal lover, you just know you’ll be crying buckets of tears over this movie. Movie-land loves our four-legged friends. Which doggy movie do you think is the best? Hachi: A Dog’s Tale is currently on demand on … Continue reading
Out on DVD | Amelia – Hilary Swank takes off as legendary 1930s flier Amelia Earhart
It’s incredible to consider that just 70 years ago, the idea of piloting a plane around the world was considered “impossible”. Thanks to gutsy 1930s aviation pioneers like Amelia Earhart, air travel gripped the public’s attention –and its heart. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelia, Amelia Earhart, Ewan McGregor, Gene Vidal, George Putnam, Hilary Swank, Lockheed Electra, Mira Nair, Richard Gere
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Couch Potato Pickings | Chicago
This fabulous all-singing, all-dancing movie marked the return of the musical for me. I know Moulin Rouge! hit the screens a year earlier but that film just doesn’t have the razzle dazzle like this one. I remember sitting in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere
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Couch Potato Pickings | Shall We Dance
If you dusted off your old dancing shoes following last Friday’s toe-tapping movie on Watch, then I hope you haven’t put them away yet. It seems that Friday night is dancing night on this channel at the moment. A couple … Continue reading
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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Tagged ballet, ballroom dancing, Beegees, Billy Elliot, Bring It On, cheerleading, Coyote Ugly, Dirty Dancing, disco, Elizabeth Berkley, fame, Flashdance, Footloose, Gina Gershon, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, hip hop, Jamie Bell, Jennifer Beals, Jennifer Grey, Jennifer Lopez, John Travolta, Julia Stiles, Julie Walters, Kevin Bacons, Kirsten Dunst, lap dancing, leg warmers, Liza Minelli, Lori Singer, Patrick Swayze, Paul Mercurio, Piper Perabo, Richard Gere, Sarah Jessica Parker, Saturday Night Fever, Save the Last Dance, Sean Patrick Thomas, Shall We Dance, Showgirls, Stepping Out, Strictly Ballroom, stripping, Susan Sarandon, tap dancing, The Full Monty
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Couch Potato Pickings | I’m Not There
On Sky Movies Premiere tonight at 11.45pm Have you ever felt left out because you don’t understand? I’m sure we all experience this from time to time, don’t we? A memorable example of this for me was a few years … Continue reading
The Guilty Pleasure Dome | Pretty Woman
First off, I’m going to fess up and say that Pretty Woman has to qualify as the ultimate guilty pleasure for a card-carrying feminist like myself. (Oh, all right, I don’t actually have a card but you get my drift). Basically, what … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings – An Officer and a Gentleman
On Film4 tonight at 9pm Many people love a man in uniform. Is this because the look is indeed sexy or is it because they’ve all seen handsome Richard Gere looking particularly dashing in this movie? Here are some other … Continue reading
