Tag Archives: Richard Gere

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

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Pooch pics for Crufts week

Couch Potato Pickings Since that world famous dog show Crufts starts tomorrow, I thought it would be fun to take a look at some pooch pics I expected to be compiling quite a short list, but I’ve discovered that movie-land … Continue reading

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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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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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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

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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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Couch Potato Pickings | Sweet Home Alabama, and other films based on song titles

The classic 1974 song Sweet Home Alabama was a controversial response by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd to Southern Man and Alabama – two songs from the 1970s by Neil Young that express anti-southern sentiments. Read more about that here. Don’t expect any … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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