Tag Archives: Robert Pattinson

Film review | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – Finally, Bella’s blood wedding (but the action’s anaemic)

The teasing is finally over. After three films filled with yearning emotions and unfulfilled desires, love-struck human-vampire couple Bella and Edward finally get to consummate their love in the fourth instalment of the phenomenally successful Twilight saga – yet only … Continue reading

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Fast Five Engine trouble… The high-octane Fast & Furious franchise continues as Dominic and his crew try to outsmart a drug baron and a ruthless federal agent. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade … Continue reading

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DVD review | I Am Number Four

Replace Twilight’s hunky vampire with an equally hunky extraterrestrial and you have the selling point for dizzy sci-fi action thriller I Am Number Four. Bidding for some of Robert Pattinson’s heartthrob status, chisel-jawed young English actor Alex Pettyfer plays the … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Trivia: Thirteen – Auditions for this movie took place in a bed.

And it happens to be the very same bed where R-Patz kissed K-Stew for the Twilight screen test. And that’ll be because the 2003 drama Thirteen was directed and co-written by Catherine Hardwicke – director of the first Twilight movie. … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Eclipse & It’s Complicated – two love dilemmas, two generations

Cheerful romcom It’s Complicated and Eclipse – the final film in the supernatural Twilight saga – tell two very different stories. The first is a merry yarn about divorced, middle-aged mother of three Jane (Meryl Streep), and the other is … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Twilight – a film that deserves to be spoofed

Twilight. How different my life would have been if I’d not seen this film and its sequels. I struggle to imagine how I would have coped in a world packed with Robsessed work colleagues and a media circus that bands … Continue reading

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Centurion Bloody battle… Neil Marshall (The Descent) directs this historical action thriller about a group of Roman soldiers fighting for their lives after their legion is wiped out in a brutal ambush. If you can see this, then you might … Continue reading

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