Tag Archives: Samuel L Jackson

Film review | Avengers Assemble – Joss Whedon adds Heh Heh Heh to Wham Blam Splat!

Geeky fanboys will be in heaven. After their recent solo outings, Marvel comic-book heroes Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor and Captain America finally get to do cool things as a team in Avengers Assemble. Pulled together by Samuel L Jackson’s … Continue reading

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Blu-ray review | Die Hard Quadrilogy – Two decades, four films & one cocky hero

With a fifth Die Hard movie, A Good Day to Die Hard, currently in pre-production, the first four films in the series featuring Bruce Willis’s maverick New York cop John McClane now make their debut on Blu-ray. Die Hard (1988), … Continue reading

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Who won Arena starring Twilight’s Kellan Lutz and Samuel L Jackson on Blu-ray?

Twilight‘s Kellan Lutz and veteran star Samuel L Jackson face off in the action-packed thrill ride Arena, now on Blu-ray and DVD through Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The action adventure, from the makers of Collateral, Transporter 2 and the Death … Continue reading

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Bad Lieutenants – Top 10 Most Corrupt Screen Cops of All Time

Today is your last chance to enter our competition to win Bad Lieutenant on DVD so get going! Please note that this competition is not fixed and bribes will not be accepted (unless they’re, like, reeeally good). And just to … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings: Womanisers and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

The title say it all really. Matthew McConaughey plays a serial womaniser in a (somewhat clumsy but watchable)) romcom spin on Charles Dickens‘ classic festive tale, A Christmas Carol. Will filmmakers ever tire of adapting this literary classic? Probably not. … Continue reading

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News Muse Special – The Oscars Experience

News Muse is wishing she belonged to the Hollywood glitterati and could get a seat next to some hottie at the Oscars ceremony. Instead, the reality is that she got rejected off the bleachers and doesn’t have access to the … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Snakes on a Plane, and phobias

Showing on Film4 tonight at 9pm OK, I know I’ve picked this film before, but since I’ve recently been talking with friends about phobias, I couldn’t resist the chance to mention this movie’s ophidiophobia and aerophobia double whammy. Fears of … Continue reading

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Out on DVD | Lakeview Terrace

Neil LaBute’s unnerving thriller Lakeview Terrace fits squarely within the genre dubbed “suburban psycho-neighbour noir” (remember Pacific Heights?). This time the nut next door is Samuel L Jackson’s Abel Turner, an LAPD officer and self-appointed neighbourhood watchman whose niggling harassment … Continue reading

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Snakes on a Plane

Couch Potato Pickings On Channel 4 tonight at 10pm Everyone mocked the title of this film when it first started doing the publicity rounds back in 2006, but it’s thanks to its amusingly obvious name that the film slithered its … Continue reading

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News Muse – Marvelous headlines

Things haven’t been easy for Warner Bros lately. Their much anticipated Marvel feature film Watchmen has been caught up for months in a copyright law suit against Fox, who have been trying to become co-distributors. For a while it looked … Continue reading

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