Tag Archives: Sandra Bullock

Couch Potato’s Country Pickin’s: The Thing Called Love was which actor’s last movie?

The 1993 Peter Bogdanovich movie The Thing Called Love tells the tale of four young singers struggling to win fame in the country music capital of Nashville. The four aspiring stars meet and get distracted by love while auditioning at … Continue reading

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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Teaser: Which stars were originally intended for the lead roles in Speed?

This 50-miles-per-hour action thriller starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock was actually written for two other stars. So who?  Nicolas Cage and Julia Roberts perhaps? Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman maybe? Kiefer Sutherland and Laura Linney possibly? Well, guess what, … Continue reading

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Film review | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Extremely awkward and incredibly whimsical more like

After tackling the Holocaust in his last film, The Reader, director Stephen Daldry takes on the trauma of 9/11 with this adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s bestselling novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Precocious 10-year-old Oskar (newcomer Thomas Horn) lost … Continue reading

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Christmas Cracker #8 | Today: A Tacky Prize

Sandra Bullock wins a Worst Actress Razzie for All About Steve in 2011 and threatens to read the whole script!! And give back the Razzie next year when everyone has actually watched the movie! You need to a flashplayer enabled … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | The Love Letter, and other letter-driven movies

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I can’t remember the last time I received a letter. I’m not counting the pointless duplicate letters I regularly receive from my energy supplier (very green eh!), or … 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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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

The Blind Side Back on track… This American drama features an Oscar-winning performance from Sandra Bullock as a woman who helps to nurture a homeless teenager to sporting glory. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | The best and worst movie marriage proposals

In The Proposal,  Sandra Bullock plays a bossy publishing exec who bribes her assistant (Ryan Reynolds) into going through with a sham marriage proposal to avoid deportation. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade … Continue reading

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Shutter Island Mind games… Leo DiCaprio plays a US marshal sent to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a remote psychiatric hospital in Martin Scorsese’s dark thriller. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Clash of the Titans Greek tragedy… This big-budget remake of the 1981 fantasy classic stars Avatar’s Sam Worthington as Perseus, the demi-god charged with rescuing Argos (the Greek city, not the catalogue-based retail chain) from vengeful Hades and the monstrous … Continue reading

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