Tag Archives: Sean Penn

Thought for the Day from Milk

Posted on 8 April 2012 by Adele Craciun

“I ask this… If there should be an assassination, I would hope that five, ten, one hundred, a thousand would rise. I would like to see every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out – If a bullet should enter … Continue reading →

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Film review | This Must Be the Place – Sean Penn’s retired Goth rocker goes on a Nazi-hunting road trip

Posted on 5 April 2012 by Jason Best

Funnier on screen than he’s been in any part since permanently stoned surfer dude Jeff Spicoli in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridegmont High, Sean Penn is terrific in the lead role of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s distinctly offbeat This Must … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Teaser: Why the title 21 Grams?

Posted on 6 December 2011 by Beth Williams

In tragic psychological drama 21 Grams, the lives of a terminally ill maths professor, a former drug addict turned suburban mother, and a reformed ex-con become intertwined in the wake of a terrible car crash. But why the title 21 … Continue reading →

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DVD review | The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or winner: Brilliant or baffling?

Posted on 31 October 2011 by Jason Best

Terrence Malick’s Cannes film festival Palme d’Or winner is a work that has some viewers swooning in rapture yet leaves others baffled and bored. It looks fabulous, full of luminous and lyrical images, but the plot and meaning are tricky … Continue reading →

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55th BFI London Film Festival – 10 films we can’t wait to see & tips on how to get tickets for the rest

Posted on 21 September 2011 by Jason Best

This year’s BFI London Film Festival kicks off in three weeks’ time and, as usual, there’s a staggering lineup of films and special events to choose from, including over 200 features and 110 shorts, 13 world premieres, 18 international premieres … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Fair Game

Posted on 18 July 2011 by Jason Best

Doug Liman, director of The Bourne Identity and Mr and Mrs Smith, is at the helm of gripping real-life spy movie Fair Game, a sober and sobering account of the double-dealing of the Bush White House in the run-up to … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 15 July 2011 by Dean & Ellen

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Scrap metal… This third instalment of the sci-fi franchise joins Sam Witwicky as he and the Autobots battle to stop the Decepticons from activating a devastating Cybertronian technology. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley pouts throughout. If you can … Continue reading →

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Thought for the Day from Milk

Posted on 3 July 2011 by Beth Williams

“All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words.” Milk (2008) Discuss this film on our Movie Talk Facebook page or Movie Talk Twitter stream

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Couch Potato Pickings | Adam, and other social disability movies

Posted on 16 October 2010 by Beth Williams

Adam, starring Brit actor Hugh Dancy, is a film about a guy with Asperger’s syndrome. When Adam meets Beth (Rose Byrne), an attractive young woman from his New York apartment block, the pair are instantly attracted. But, as they get … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | My 10 movie-themed cocktails

Posted on 25 September 2010 by Beth Williams

The last time I ‘wrote about’ Cocktail, I used it as an excuse to list my favourite classic cocktails along with the films in which they star. Actually I didn’t say much about the Tom Cruise film at all. Check … Continue reading →

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